The Science of the Swastika / / Bernard Mees.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Mees, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: “Issues concerning the Teutons” --; Chapter 1. The Tradition of Völkisch Germanism --; Chapter 2. History and Intuition --; Chapter 3. The Origins of Ideographic Studies --; Chapter 4. Germanic Resurgence --; Chapter 5. National Socialism and Antiquity --; Chapter 6. Intellectual Prehistory --; Chapter 7. Academic Responses --; Chapter 8. The Expansion of the Ahnenerbe --; Chapter 9. Into the Academy --; Chapter 10. Epilogue, Aftermath --; Conclusion: The Secret Garden --; Abbreviations --; Picture Credits --; Bibliography --; Index --; Illustrations
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9786155211577; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9786155211577
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernard Mees.

The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945.