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Racial Exclusionism in the New Germany

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As artificial ethnic entities, nation-states tend to exclude the groups and individuals who do not conform to their rules of citizenship. The methods of exclusion vary from one state to another and depend upon the national traditions existing within an individual nation-state and the system of government. Obviously, a dictatorship like the one which existed in Germany between 1933 and 1945 will behave in a much more extreme way than any contemporary European liberal democracy. The methods of exclusion in the former were ruthless and brutal, while those employed by the latter are of course far more ‘genteel’. Nevertheless, while the methods of discrimination or persecution clearly differ from one country to another and from one system of government to another, all nation-states are ultimately in the same business: the inclusion of those who meet the necessary ethnic criteria for citizenship and the exclusion of those who do not.

I am grateful to the following for financing the research for this chapter: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Department of Historical and International Studies at De Montfort University.

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    Klaus Larres (Reader in Politics) (Reader in Politics)

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Panayi, P. (2001). Racial Exclusionism in the New Germany. In: Larres, K. (eds) Germany since Unification. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800038_7

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