Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions : Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia /
German scholars were early pioneers in folklore and historical linguistics. As the Nazis rose to power, however, these disciplines were distorted into racist pseudoscience. Under the direction of Heinrich Himmler's SS-Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Inheritance), folklore became a tool for constructing a...
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. October 21, 1939; 2. The Intellectual Atmosphere; 3. Who's Who?; 4. Much Ado about Nothing?; 5. Gottschee; 6. Then and Now; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Call for Collecting Folktales; Appendix 2: Gisela Schmitz-Kahlmann's Summary of Activities (German); Appendix 3: Josef Ringler's Summary of Activities of Gertrud Pesendorfer (German); Appendix 4: Handbills Calling for Optanten to Stay Home in Italy; Appendix 5: Mussolini Letter Supporting Alcuni documenti; Notes; Bibliography; Index.