This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiativ

Asserts that German medical professionals (including biologists and anthropologists) supported Nazism earlier, in greater numbers, and more enthusiastically tha

Against this background, Cleansing the Fatherland sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore.

The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentie