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The Science of the Swastika

By Bernard Mees

Book information

Publisher
Central European University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9786155211577
DOI
10.1515/9786155211577
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2394698 bytes)
Pages
390\390
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 06:00:19

Description

The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945.

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