The Science of the Swastika
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The Science of the Swastika

  1. 388 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Science of the Swastika

About this book

The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: “Issues concerning the Teutons”
  7. 1. The Tradition of Völkisch Germanism
  8. 2. History and Intuition
  9. 3. The Origins of Ideographic Studies
  10. 4. Germanic Resurgence
  11. 5. National Socialism and Antiquity
  12. 6. Intellectual Prehistory
  13. 7. Academic Responses
  14. 8. The Expansion of the Ahnenerbe
  15. 9. Into the Academy
  16. 10. Epilogue, Aftermath
  17. Conclusion: The Secret Garden
  18. Abbreviations
  19. Picture Credits
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Illustrations