Kleine Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes - A short ethnology of the German people by Prof. Dr. Hans Friedrich Karl Günther with one hundred illustrations and 13 maps. Published by F. lemanns, Munich 1935. Antisemitic publication in a "scientific" disguise that compares the skulls of the "inferior" races - the Jews, and others to The German: Many photographs of portraits and racist analysis of the skulls of European peoples compared to Jews.
The author [1891-1968] is considered one of the most prominent influencers of Nazi racist thought, and his theories stemmed from the prevailing Norse ideology at the time. He goes on to characterize and investigate the Jewish race in an attempt to determine its inferiority from a "scientific" point of view. In his opinion, the Ashkenazi Jew is a mixture of races from East and West, "a foreign plant that flowed from Asia into the European texture" and has different physical characteristics from those of the original Europeans. It divides the European population into six races whose chosen one is the Norse race, and calls for the unification of the Norse peoples to ensure their control, and warns against mixing them with other races. In the book many photographs of portraits of the various races, with individual reference to each organ in the face, and an attempt to "scientifically" explain the superiority of the Aryan race over the other races.
It is known that Adolf Hitler encouraged Hans' theories, and his library had four different editions of the book. In one edition, particularly prominent signs of use were found, and Hitler included his books in the list of books recommended for all Nazis to read.
Gunther joined the Nazi Party in 1932 as the only leading race theorist to join the party before coming to power in 1933. In 1935 he was declared by the party as "the pride of the National Socialist Party", and in 1940 he received the Goethe Medal for Arts and Sciences from Hitler. In March 1941 he was received as a distinguished guest at the opening conference of the "Alfred Rosenberg Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question" at which the possibility of sending Jews to labor camps was discussed. After the war he was detained and placed in detention camps for three years, but was released as it was determined that he had not incited to murder. Even after the fall of Nazi Germany, he continued to adhere to his racial theories, engaging in "state-sponsored family structure planning", and denying the Holocaust until his death.
153 [14] p. Original cover. Very good condition.
