Hitler's face : the biography of an image / Claudia Schmölders ; translated by Adrian Daub.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : Oxford : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2009Description: 240 p. : illISBN: 9780812220810 (pbk.) :; 0812220811 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Portraits | Physiognomy -- Germany -- HistoryDDC classification: 943'.086'092 Summary: This text contends that nationalism was conjoined to a forceful belief in the power of physiognomy in Nazi ideology. The mad veneration of the idealised German face was but one component of a project that encouraged contemplation of 'degenerate' Jewish traits to advance its goals.
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This text contends that nationalism was conjoined to a forceful belief in the power of physiognomy in Nazi ideology. The mad veneration of the idealised German face was but one component of a project that encouraged contemplation of 'degenerate' Jewish traits to advance its goals.
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