Sources of the Nazi racial ideology

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.29770

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National Socialism, Nazism, Third Reich, racial policy

Abstract

This is an extract from Pauer-Studer, H. (2020). Justifying injustice. Legal theory in Nazi Germany. (Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 117–124). The author analyses the adaptation of German law to the political goals of National Socialism.

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Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (Austria), specializing in practical philosophy. Her current research focuses on rationality, practical reasoning, and normativity. She is an author of several books, like Justifying injustice – Legal theory in Nazi Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Well ich nun mal Konrad Morgen: The conscience of a Nazi judge (co-authored with J. David Velleman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), among others.

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2025-01-07

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Pauer-Studer, H. (2025). Sources of the Nazi racial ideology . Metode Science Studies Journal, (15). https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.29770
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No. 15: Volume 15 (Online first)

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Science, race and Nazism: The origins of National Socialism, 100 years after 'Mein Kampf'

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