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Rasism, eugenie și biopolitică în România, în anii celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial
Racism, Eugenics and Biopolitics in Romania, in the Years of the Second World War

Author(s): Marius Turda
Subject(s): Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Editura Hasefer
Keywords: Romania; WWII; racism; eugenics; biopolitics; Holocaust;

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses racism, eugenics and biopolitics in Romania during WWII. The anti-Semitic and anti-Roma attitudes of prominent Romanian eugenicists were not the exception, but the norm in a period during which the Romanian state pursued policies of ethnic purification, ultimately leading to the Holocaust.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4+5(20+21)
  • Page Range: 263-270
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian