German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945 / edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch ; foreword by Georg G. Iggers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283) and indexes.

German Ostforschung and anti-semitism / Ingo Haar -- The role and impact of German ethnopolitical experts in the SS Reich Security main office / Michael Fahlbusch -- The Nazi ethnographic research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in Ukraine, and its North America legacy / Eric J. Schmaltz and Samuel D. Sinner -- Volk, Bevölkerung, Rasse, and Raum : Erich Keyser's ambiguous concept of a German history of population, ca. 1918-1955 / Alexander Pinwinkler -- Ethnic politics and scholarly legitimation : the German Institut für Heimatforschung in Slovakia, 1941-1944 / Christof Morrissey -- The sword of science : German scholars and National Socialist annexation policy in Slovenia and Northern Italy / MIchael Wedekind -- Romanian-German collaboration in ethnopolitics : the case of Sabin Manuilǎ / Viorel Achim -- Palatines all over the world : Fritz Braun, a German emigration researcher in National Socialist population policy / Wolfgang Freund -- German Westforschung, 1918 to the present : the case of Franz Petri, 1903-1933 / Hans Derks -- Otto Scheel : national liberal, NOrdic prophet / Eric Kurlander -- The "third front" : German cultural policy in occupied Europe, 1940-1945 / Frank-Rutger Hausmann -- "Rich halten" : Hans Rothfels and neoconservative historiography on both sides of the Atlantic / Karl Heinz Roth -- Polish myśl zachodnia and German Ostforschung : an attempt at a comparison / Jan M. Piskorski.