German scientists eagerly co-operated with the Nazi racial project

Evidence

With relish, German scientists boarded the train drawn by the Nazi locomotive towards the brave, new, racially purified and German-dominated world. Research projects grew more ambitious by the day, and research institutes grew more populous and resourceful by the hour. Little else mattered. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 317

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Weberian point about rationalization and the role of professional experts in exclusionary projects — portable to the Islamophobia corpus on expert complicity. — connects to: Respected scientists published absurd race-based claims during World War I; Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime; Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 318 (+6 more)

Related

• Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves (similarity 0.89)
• Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime (similarity 0.86)
• Nazi racial policy grew from mainstream scientific rationalism, not fringe pathology (similarity 0.79)
• Neither science nor the churches mounted effective resistance to Nazi inhumanity (similarity 0.78)
• Nazi eugenics followed mainstream American and European scientific practice, not fringe research (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nazi racial programs were initiated and managed by credentialed scientists themselves #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 318
• Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207
• Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse #corroborates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 197
• Neither science nor the churches mounted effective resistance to Nazi inhumanity #corroborates (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 319
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• The Nazi race concept was deliberately kept supranational to license internal extermination #expands (0.70)