The Nazi Symbiosis
Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich
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Introduction: An Old Legend and a New Legacy
Chapter One: Human Heredity and Eugenics Make Their International Debut
Chapter Two: The Devil’s Directors at Dahlem
Chapter Three: The Munich Pact
Chapter Four: The Politics of Professional Talk
Chapter Five: Politicized Pedagogy
Chapter Six: The International Human Genetics Community Faces Nazi Germany
Conclusion: The Road Not Taken Elsewhere: Was There Something Unique about Human Heredity during the Third Reich?
Acknowledgments
Archival Sources
Notes
Index
“Informative and compelling, The Nazi Symbiosis combines insightful analysis with the most up-to-date research on biomedicine in the Third Reich. Sheila Faith Weiss lays bare the notorious ‘Faustian bargain’ existing between German human geneticists and National Socialist officials in the construction of the deadly Nazi biocratic state. We now have the long-awaited comprehensive overview of one of the darkest chapters in the history of science.”
“Sheila Faith Weiss shows how German geneticists enhanced their careers through research agendas that both advanced and benefited from the Nazi state’s criminal aims. A frightening study of the politics of genetic science under Hitler.”
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