Germany turns eastwards : a study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich

A study of how relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe eventually set an entire academic discipline on a path to biological racism through Nazi manipulation. Contents List of Tables Acknowledgments Part One Introduction 1. The Rise of a Profession: Classical Osteuropaforschung 1902-33 Part Two 2. Enter the General 3. Watch In the East 4. War Part Three 5. Scholarship As Power: Research Institutes in the Occupied East, 1940-45 6. The ‘Band of the Unbroken’ and Their Critics: Aspects of Ostforschung After 1945 Notes Bibliography Index A study of relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on Eastern Europe, which eventually put an entire academic discipline, Ostforchung, or research on the East, on a path which led to biological racism and manipulation under the Nazis.