TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mees,Bernard
TI  - The Science of the Swastika
SN  - 9786155211577
AV  - DD256.5 .M3975 2008eb
U1  - 929.9 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Budapest, New York : 
PB  - Central European University Press, 
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Swastikas
KW  - Symbolism (Psychology)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 20th century, Germany, History, National socialism, Nationalism, Nazism, Symbols
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: “Issues concerning the Teutons” --; Chapter 1. The Tradition of Völkisch Germanism --; Chapter 2. History and Intuition --; Chapter 3. The Origins of Ideographic Studies --; Chapter 4. Germanic Resurgence --; Chapter 5. National Socialism and Antiquity --; Chapter 6. Intellectual Prehistory --; Chapter 7. Academic Responses --; Chapter 8. The Expansion of the Ahnenerbe --; Chapter 9. Into the Academy --; Chapter 10. Epilogue, Aftermath --; Conclusion: The Secret Garden --; Abbreviations --; Picture Credits --; Bibliography --; Index --; Illustrations; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211577
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9786155211577
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9786155211577/original
ER  -