In Search of "Aryan Blood": Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany

Contents

v Outlining the problem c o n t e n t s list of figures vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 1 chapter I: THE EMERGENCE OF BLOOD SCIENCE 9 “Contagious Blood” in German Fiction and Early Blood Science 10 Origins of Serology  17 The Völkisch Notion of “Blood Defilement” 20 Seroanthropology 26 Jewish Physicians and Blood Science  34 Postwar Blood Science  38 chapter II: seroanthropology in THE early 1920s: BLOOD, RACE, AND EUGENICS 41 Frigyes Verzár and Oszkár Weszeczky: Seroanthropological Research in Hungary  42 Surveying “Native Germans”  47 Blood Type and Genetic Inferiority 58 Völkisch Research 63 chapter III: ORGANIZING seroanthropology: the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GERMAN inSTITUTE FOR BLOOD GROUP RESEARCH 71 Otto Reche and Racial Anthropology  72 The German Institute for Blood Group Research  79 med_04___ok.indd 5 2011-12-18 20:20:07 vi CONTENTS CHAPTER IV: seroanthropology at its height: distinguishing those with "Pure blood" 89 Studies of “Native Germans”  90 Biased Research  99 CHAPTER V: the jew as examiner and examined 117 E. O. Manoiloff’s “Serochemistry” and Jewish Blood  124 Seroanthropological Analysis of Jews  126 Völkisch Propaganda 138 Jews and Seroanthropology  141 CHAPTER VI: BLOOD as metaphor and science in the nuremberg race laws 149 Seroanthropology in 1933  150 Proponents of Seroanthropology  155 Racial “Reform” under Nazism 157 “Blood Defilement” 163 Diverse Means of “Blood Defilement”  170 Seroanthropological Research in the Third Reich  173 The German Institute for Blood Group Research 176 CHAPTER VII: the pedagogy and practice of seroanthropology during world war II 187 Seroanthropology and National Socialist Medicine 192 Seroanthropological Research 197 Seroanthropology and Nazi Racial Ideology 204 Clinical Serology 211 conclusion 225 INDEX OF NAMES 243 med_04___ok.indd 6 2011-12-18 20:20:07 ...