RT Article
T1 Creating the paradigm of ‘new nation’: eugenic thinking and the culture of racial-hygiene in the Slovak State
JF Fascism
VO 10
IS 2
SP 275
OP 297
A1 Hruboň, Anton 1989-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1859331750
AB Despite its official Catholic nature, Jozef Tiso’s Slovak State apparatus adopted not only the teachings of the eugenic movement but also the racial-hygiene ideology of National Socialist Germany, which it gradually implemented into its political culture. This study presents how eugenic and racial-hygiene thinking was introduced into the structures of Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana (HSĽS; Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party), the self-governing party of independent Slovakia during the Second World War, against the backdrop of developmental trends in Europe. What is emphasized here is the gradual formation of the racial paradigm in the spirit of a eugenic and racial-hygiene framework, as well as the formation of a ‘pure Aryan Slovak nation’ cult, physically and mentally contrasting with racially-hygienically ‘unclean and degenerate’ Jews and Roma.
K1 Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana (HSĽS - Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party)
K1 Slovak Republic
K1 Slovak State
K1 Biopolitics
K1 Eugenics
K1 Fascism
K1 Racism
DO 10.1163/22116257-bja10032