Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions: Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia

by James Dow and James R. Dow

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 unified German realm and a manufactured lineage from ancient and "pure" Germanic and Nordic blood.

Drawing on extensive research in public and private...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299316505
• ISBN13: 9780299316501
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"