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LOT 40:
Research on the race of the Jewish people - Nazi publication of the race theory. Munich, 1930
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Research on the race of the Jewish people - Nazi publication of the race theory. Munich, 1930
Rassenkunde des jüdischen volkes - a study of the Jewish race, written by a member of the Nazi Party and one of the leading propagators of racial theory during the war - Hans Günther, published by J.F. Lehmanns in Munich, 1930.
Anti-Semitic publication in the form of a scientific study on the Jewish race. The publication includes numerous photographs of various races for the purpose of comparison, and asserts the superiority of the Aryan race.
The author Hans Friedrich Karl Günther (1891-1968), was a member of the Nazi party and a professor of racial theories. He was a German philologist who worked as a race theorist in the Weimar Republic and during the Nazi era. He is considered one of the creators of Nazi racial theory and was one of the leading scientists behind the Nazi extermination machine. Günther worked to establish the theory of race and the superiority of Nordic people over other races. Even after the war, he did not renounce his sickly beliefs and continued to publish under various pseudonyms.
352, [8] p. hard cover. Very good condition. On the protective page is a dedication from 1942.
