TY - BOOK ID - 74964729 TI - The science of the swastika PY - 2008 SN - 9789639776180 9639776181 9781435665088 1435665082 9786155211577 6155211574 1283248093 9781283248099 PB - Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Swastikas. KW - Symbolism (Psychology) KW - National socialism. KW - Nationalism KW - Svastika KW - Symbolisme (Psychologie) KW - Nazisme KW - Nationalisme KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Nazism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Fascism KW - Nazis KW - Neo-Nazism KW - Totalitarianism KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Symbolism in psychology KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Psychology KW - Fylfots KW - Svastikas KW - Swastika KW - Crosses KW - Causes KW - 20th century, Germany, History, National socialism, Nationalism, Nazism, Symbols. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74964729 AB - The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945. ER -