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Auteur(s) : Dow, James R.
Titre(s) : Heinrich Himmler's cultural commissions [Texte imprimé] : programmed plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia / James R. Dow
Publication : Madison (Wis.) : The University of Wisconsin Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-267 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 225-250. Bibliogr. p. 251-261. Index
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 archives and interviews with family members of fieldworkers, James R.
Dow uncovers both details of the SS cultural commissions' work and the continuing
vestiges of the materials they assembled. Teams of poorly qualified and ideologically
motivated collectors were sent to South Tyrol in Italy and Gottschee in Slovenian
Yugoslavia, from which ethnically German communities were to be resettled in the German
Reich. Although a mass of information on narratives, songs and dances, beliefs, customs,
local clothing and architecture, and folk speech was collected, the research was deeply
tainted and skewed by racialist and nationalist preconditions. Dow sharply critiques
the continued use of these ersatz archives.
Sujet(s) : Nationalisme et folklore -- Bolzano (Italie ; province) -- 1900-1945
National-socialisme et culture -- Bolzano (Italie ; province)
National-socialisme et culture -- Kočevje (Slovénie)
Nationalisme et folklore -- Kočevje (Slovénie) -- 1900-1945
Das Ahnenerbe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780299316501. - ISBN 0299316505 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455020909
Notice n° :
FRBNF45502090
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