The eugenic fortress

Titel: The eugenic fortress : the Transylvanian Saxon experiment in interwar Romania / Tudor Georgescu
Verfasser:
Veröffentlicht: New York : Central European University Press, 2016
Umfang: x, 279 pages
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; Volume VII
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 9789633861394
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. vi
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. vii
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. ix
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • i
  • Imagining a "Eugenic Fortress": Fascist Who and Eugenic What?
  • p. 8
  • ii
  • Exclusions
  • p. 17
  • iii
  • Unpacking the Past
  • p. 20
  • Chapter I
  • Locating and defining the Transylvanian Saxon Eugenic Discourse
  • p. 29
  • i
  • Heinrich Siegmund and the Origins of Saxon Eugenics
  • p. 29
  • ii
  • Saxon Racial Anthropology between Berlin and Vienna
  • p. 44
  • iii
  • The "Child Enthusiast" Alfred Csallner
  • p. 51
  • iv
  • Fritz Fabritius's Self-Help, from "Building Society" to Rebuilding Society
  • p. 70
  • v
  • Wilhelm Schunn's National Neighborhoods and Honorary Gifts
  • p. 78
  • Chapter II
  • Assessing the Dysgenic Crisis: Key Concepts and Theses in Alfred Csallner's Definition of Saxon Degeneration
  • p. 85
  • i
  • The Lost Children: Family Planning and the Demographic Collapse
  • p. 86
  • ii
  • The Quality Question: The Nation's Hereditarily "Best" under Threat of Extinction
  • p. 92
  • iii
  • Emigration: The Loss of Saxon Hereditary Substance
  • p. 102
  • iv
  • Mixed Marriages: The End of Racial Distinctiveness
  • p. 103
  • v
  • Lebensraum: Of "Foreign Invaders," Saxon Employers, and Society's Scourges, Alcohol and Tobacco
  • p. 112
  • Chapter III
  • Alfred Csallner in Search of Eugenic Solutions and Institutional Means
  • p. 121
  • i
  • Eugenic Missionaries: Visions of Priests Old and New
  • p. 122
  • ii
  • Csallner's Population Policy Proposals and the Church
  • p. 126
  • iii
  • Going It Alone: The Society of Child Enthusiasts, 1927-30
  • p. 138
  • iv
  • The Self-Help Race Office, 1932-35
  • p. 143
  • v
  • The Reinvention of the Race Office as National Department for Statistics, Population Policy, and Genealogy, 1935-38
  • p. 145
  • vi
  • The National Office for Statistics and Genealogy and Its Six Departments, 1938-41
  • p. 149
  • Chapter IV
  • Fascist Visions of a Eugenic Fortress: The Self-Help's Origins and Rise to Power, 1922-33
  • p. 165
  • i
  • Fritz Fabritius and the Origins of Saxon Fascism
  • p. 166
  • ii
  • Early Development, 1922-29
  • p. 172
  • iii
  • Expansion and Radicalization, 1929-32
  • p. 179
  • iv
  • The NSDR Victorious, 1932-33
  • p. 193
  • Chapter V
  • Saxon Fascism in Power, 1933-40
  • p. 203
  • i
  • The Self-Help's Various Forms and Formats, 1933-34
  • p. 204
  • ii
  • War and Peace: The National Community of Germans in Romania, 1935-40
  • p. 208
  • iii
  • The Mighty Pen: The 1935 National Program of Germans in Romania
  • p. 210
  • iv
  • Building a Bristling Eugenic Fortress, One Neighborhood at a Time: Wilhelm's Schunn's National Neighborhoods, 1933-40
  • p. 215
  • Chapter VI
  • 1940 and Everything After
  • p. 241
  • Conclusions
  • p. 255
  • Bibliography
  • p. 259
  • Index of Names
  • p. 277
  • Index of Places
  • p. 279