• Unsettling continuities – from colonial racism to Nazism

  • Feb 27 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
  • Podcast

Unsettling continuities – from colonial racism to Nazism

  • Summary

  • Respected German anthropologists made a career from dividing people by race, a new branch of science that conveniently put Europeans at the top. While eugenics and scientific racism was widely practiced in Western nations in the early 1900s, the ideas developed by Eugen Fischer and others served as the intellectual bedrock for race-based crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
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