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Bloodlines Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial

By Anthony M. Platt, Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary Copyright 2006
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge
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    At the end of World War II, an American military intelligence team retrieved an original copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler, and turned over this rare document to General George S. Patton. In 1999, after fifty-five years in the vault of the Huntington Library in southern California, the Nuremberg Laws resurfaced and were put on public display for the first time at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. In this far-ranging, interdisciplinary study that is part historical analysis, part cultural critique, part detective story, and part memoir, Tony Platt explores a range of interrelated issues: war-time looting, remembrance of the holocaust, German and American eugenics, and the public responsibilities of museums and cultural centers. This book is based on original research by the author and co-researcher, historian Cecilia O'Leary, in government, military, and library archives; interviews and oral histories; and participant observation. It is both a detailed, scholarly analysis and a record of the author's activist efforts to correct the historical record.

    I. ORIGINS STORIES; Paradise for Humanists; The Closest You Come; A Suitable Past; The Last Word; Old Wounds; II. PRESENT ABSENCES; Everyone Else; The Liberator; A Bolt Out of The Blue; Where Cultures Connect; III. RACIAL HYGIENE: OVER THERE; Tall Like Germans; Human Betterment; Eugenic Science; Nordics of the World; IV. BLOOD AND HONOR; City of the Reich Party Rallies; The Jewish Question; Nazi Icon; Completely Destroyed; Irony of Fate; V. PATTON'S TROPHY; Loot; Problem Child; The Important One; Off The Books; In Limbo; VI. RACIAL HYGIENE: OVER HERE; Outpost of Civilization; Race Matters; Legacies; VII. THE DECISION; Company Village; Economics of Change; Public Face; Overtures; The Story; VIII. PAST AND PRESENT; The Aftermath; Reframing the Exhibit; Positive Messages; History Lessons; APPENDICES; CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; ACRONYMS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR & CO-RESEARCHER.

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    Authored by Platt, Anthony M.; O'Leary, Cecilia Elizabeth

    “Bloodlines is a masterful work of non-fiction that has plots and subplots, brilliant detective work, and serious learning. Everything is examined with scholarly precision, everything is told insightfully, boldly, truthfully. The result is intellectual history at its best—and like so many who start off on a journey of discovery, Platt learns that the external journey is also a journey within.”
    —Michael Berenbaum, Former Director of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Research Institute and Former President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

    “Bloodlines explodes the Patton myth.”
    —Joe Eskenazi, “How Gen. Patton Stole a Piece of Jewish History as his Prize,” J, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, April 21, 2006.

    “Hollywood couldn’t craft a more intriguing story, which is just as well. History is stranger than fiction.”
    —Matthew Craggs, review of Bloodlines, Sacramento News and Review, April 27, 2006.

    “Tony Platt’s pursuit of the notorious Nuremberg documents of the Nazi regime is a fascinating excursion into history. It is also full of provocative insights about the culture of remembering.”
    —Howard Zinn
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