The Use and Abuse of Archaeology to Promote Nazi Nationalist Goals

By appealing to the people, and restoring a sense of pride through nationalism, Hitler and his Nazi party gained immense popularity. In this article, I explore one of the Nazi party\u27s most influential, yet not well known or studied in depth, methods for inspiring nationalistic pride in Germany, archaeological research

Jung and Antisemitism

Paper given at History of Science, Medicine and Technology [E-seminars

Jung and Antisemitism

Paper given at History of Science, Medicine and Technology [E-seminars

The ideal Nordic – Dinaric racial type: Racial anthropology in the Independent State of Croatia

This article has highlighted that a clear picture emerged of the ideal Croatian physical type in the NDH’s cultural media: the ideal Croat was of Dinaric type with a Nordic strain or ‘Nordic-Dinaric’ (i.e. tall, broad-headed with a long face and light pigmentation), descended from both the Nordic ‘Slavic-Gothic-Iranians’ of White Croatia and the predominantly Dinaric ‘Celtic-Illyrians’ of Dalmatia. The intellectual origins of the Ustasha idea of an ideal racial type can be traced to the pre-war studies of Croatian academics and writers interested in racial science. One should be cautious, however, in trying to establish a direct link between pre-war Croatian racial anthropology and the actual policies of the Ustasha regime toward non-Aryans in the NDH. On the other hand, the Ustasha regime certainly used race theory to justify racial policies. The Ustasha state was, in law and in practice, based on a racial Weltanschauung