A ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars on the interplay between psychology and politics. James M. Glass attributes the Holocaust to the idea of racial hygiene popular in Germany prior to World War II.. Challenging conventional interpretations of the Holocaust, this provocative and sure-to-be-controversial work argues that the Final Solution was born out of the pseudoscientific medical theories of racial hygiene that permeated German culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Glass, a leading ...
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A ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars on the interplay between psychology and politics. James M. Glass attributes the Holocaust to the idea of racial hygiene popular in Germany prior to World War II.. Challenging conventional interpretations of the Holocaust, this provocative and sure-to-be-controversial work argues that the Final Solution was born out of the pseudoscientific medical theories of racial hygiene that permeated German culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Glass, a leading scholar of political psychology and political theory, explains that for German society, what today would be reagarded as insane became in that time and place normal politics. }In this path-breaking work of intellectual and cultural history, James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions about the Holocaust that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary Germans participate in the Final Solution? And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and deserving of extermination?Glass argues that the answers lie in the rise of a particular ethos of public health and sanitation that emerged from the German medical establishment and filtered down to the common people. Building his argument on a trove of documentary evidence, including the records of the German medical community and of other professional groups, he traces the development in the years following World War I of theories of racial hygiene that singled out the Jews as an infectious disease, and that determined them as life unworthy of life in the words of Nazi propogandists and German scientists.Looked at from a broader perspective, Glass writes, the actions and beliefs of the German people show what today would be regarded as insane, became, for World War II German society, normal politics. Murdering millions of innocent people was not seen as a vicious criminal conspiracy, but as a therapy essential to the cultures well-being. }
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