Measuring the Master Race : Physical Anthropology in Norway 1890-1945
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic'or ‘Nordic'race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The S...
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