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During the 1920s and 1930s, Günther was one of the prominent voices of the Nordic Movement (Die Nordische Bewegung) [...]. His work gained primacy in the Third Reich, and his racial typology was embraced by the political establishment and became, in many cases, a stamp of ideological correctness.
One of the events that marked the most significant turning point of German racial thought was undoubtedly the publication of Hans F.K. Günther's Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes in 1922. Immediately after its appearance, this work gained unprecedented circulation, and by 1942 its sales reached 124,000 copies. Günther's book is of particular importance, mainly due to its great popularity among the general public in the twenties and thirties, and the author's prestige in the eyes of the National Socialist ideological elite. [...] A shortened, popularized, version of the book, published in 1929 under the name Kleine Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes, was compulsory reading in all schools in the Third Reich. In 1942 alone, it sold 295,000 copies.
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