Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 Book

Acknowledgments     vii
List of Contributors     viii
Introduction
Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling: Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940: A Historiographic Overview     1
Ethnography and Racial Anthropology
Egbert Klautke: German "Race Psychology" and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius     23
Margit Berner: From "Prisoner of War Studies" to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of "Others" in Austria     41
Maria Teschler-Nicola: Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The "Marienfeld Project"     55
Rory Yeomans: Of "Yugoslav Barbarians" and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia     83
Sevasti Trubeta: Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece     123
Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts
Michal Simunek: Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900-1925     145
Magdalena Gawin: Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905-1939     167
Marius Turda: The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910-1918     185
Christian Promitzer: Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905-1940     223
Ken Kalling: The Self-Perception of a SmallNation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia     253
Paul J. Weindling: Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene     263
Religion, Public Health and Population Policies
Kamila Uzarczyk: "Moses als Eugeniker"? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland     283
Monika Loscher: Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria     299
Herwig Czech: From Welfare to Selection: Vienna's Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime     317
Maria Bucur: Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania     335
Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics
Razvan Paraianu: Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siecle Romania     353
Attila Pok: The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary     375
Aristotle A. Kallis: Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe     389
Roger Griffin: Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880-1939     417
Index     457