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Title: Perversions of Science
Review: The Nazis used anything they could to justify their rule and the primacy of the "Aryan" race. They used many aspects of science to prove this point, but twisted and molded these ideas to suit National Socialist dogma. Heather Pringle's book investigates and illustrates how various sciences were used to show that "Aryans" were the superior race. Heinrich Himmler, being the dreamer he was, tried to twist history(prehistory) to show that the Germans were meant to rule the world and that they in fact were responsible for all the greatness of civilization. He enlisted scholars of all sorts to "flesh" this out. Along the way he encountered charaltans and crackpots and even respected acadmeics to his cause. Pringle tells this ghastly story well, well qualified from her earlier book about Mummies. This story will repluse some, but the lessons it teaches are well worth reading, it has exposed another of the inhumane and incredulous facet of the Third Reich.
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