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CLAY, CATRINE & LEAPMAN, MICHAEL: : MASTER RACE: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany

LONDON.BCA/by Arrangement with HODDER & STOUGHTON,1995.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,bookclub 1st edn thus.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - book club edns were unpriced.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj with silver and yellow lettering to front; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,ix-xipp+1 -211pp [paginated] includes a co-author introduction,10 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp84/5 and pp148/9 respectively,a bibliography,a glossary and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,content list/table,and an illustrations list/table. In the run-up to the Second World War,Heinrich Himmler embarked on Lebensborn,his obsessive programme to populate the Thousand Year German Reich with pure blooded Aryan men and women - while the death camps were disposing of Jews, homosexuals and other 'sub-humans' enumerated by Hitler in 'Mein Kampf.' Young women who displayed regular Aryan features,and could prove their descent over several untainted generations,were encouraged to bear the children of members of the SS security service whether or not they were married to them.The births took place in secret Lebensborn homes and between 1935 and 1945 an estimated 11,000 Aryan babies were born in Nazi occupied countries. But the dream did not stop there.When the Germans invaded Poland,Himmler's SS discovered many blonde,blue-eyed Polish children - the image of the ideal Aryan. Himmler had an estimated 200,000 of them stolen as they walked home from school or played in village squares. They were transported to camps and tested to gauge their racial quality.If they passed they were first 'Germanized' and then placed with good Nazi families; those who did not measure up were used as forced labour or sent to camps that specialised in killing children. Now,some of these 'perfect Aryans' tell their stories,recalling the shock and confusion of discovering their real backgrounds and the emotional scars they have never been able to obliterate.Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman have written a moving investigation od the tragic history of racial hygiene and Nazi eugenics,and of the innocent victims of a fanatically-pursued ideology. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,bookclub 1st edn thus.
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