Article ID: CBB000057488

The Holocaust: Conversion to racism through scientific materialism--“The people like us who killed jews” (1994)

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Description “The purpose of this article is to consider National Socialist racial ideas in terms of a pattern of conversion which derived its verification both from Social Darwinism and the general assumption of late 19th-century scientific materialism that science described things as they really were. There were three figures of special importance for the popularisation of scientific materialism in its Social Darwinist form: Count Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Ernst Haeckel.”


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Authors & Contributors
Hossfeld, Uwe
Frank-Roland Fließ
Karl Porges
Ulrich Kattmann
Zigman, Peter M.
Taylor, Françoise M.
Concepts
Biology
Racism
Science and race
National Socialism
Darwinism
Morphology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
France
Czech Republic
China
Great Britain
Institutions
Universität Zürich
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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