Abstract

VARAJIDAS, Henrique. Beyond Caricatures: Nazism, Racism and Racial Sciences (1924-1936). PO-RPCP [online]. 2021, vol.16, pp.49-68.  Epub Mar 02, 2022. ISSN 1647-4090.  https://doi.org/10.33167/2184-2078.rpcp2021.16/pp.49-68.

This article brings forth, organizes and interprets a compound of historical-empirical evidence that allows questioning of two still standing pillars of Nazism political studies: the assumption that the racial aspect of nazi ideology enjoyed a relatively monolithic interpretation within the nazi movement; and the assumption that, after the conquest of power, the nazi Party-State conspired to unilaterally impose such “ideological dogma”, both in theory and practice, on German University and German society. Rather than confirm these oft-repeated conventions, we uncover a much more complex, dialectical and dynamic mesh of relationships involving ideology, pseudoscience and racial science within the nazi movement and under the nazi regime.

Keywords : nazism; racism; pseudoscience; science; totalitarianism.

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