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AbstractThis article redresses the interpretative lacunae of historians' conceptions of Nazi racism by overcoming their attempts to comprehend it from either a secular/scientific or a religious/theological perspective. Drawing on a variety of anthropological, philosophical, and political-theoretical works, the article illustrates how Nazi racial ideas were formulated not only in accordance with the latest discoveries in the field of human heredity, but also in correspondence to contemporary debates over secularization, value-free science, and biological determinism. It argues that the Nazi conception of race constituted a new form of religiosity, which did not draw on supernatural beliefs or theological narratives, but rather on vitalist-oriented metaphysics, shifting the object of faith from the transcendent realm of God to the immanent sphere of racial inwardness. Redefining faith in vitalist-existentialist terms corresponded with the Nazi aspiration to overcome the fragmentation of modernity, overturn the nihilistic threat posed by materialist society, and carry out a spiritual renaissance built upon immanent-biological foundations.

Mavo: ha-hebit̥ ha-idiʾologi ṿe-ḥashivuto le-havanat ha-Natsizm ṿeha-Shoʾah -- Shaʿar rishon: ha-Yesodot. ba-ḥipush aḥar motsa: gezʿa, gezaʿnot u-leʾumiyot -- Shaʿar sheni: Adam. meantropologiyah fizit le-"Torat ha-gezaʿ" -- Shaʿar shelishi: ʿOlam. ha-filosofiyah shel ha-aḥdut: mi-madaʿ le-hashḳafat ʿolam -- Shaʿar reviʿi: Elohim. ha-teʾologiyah shel ha-gezaʿ.

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler's regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present