The Historical Problematization of “mixed Race” in Psychological and Human-scientific Discourses

When Hitler (1927/1999) reflected on his political struggle, he explored three topics regarding race mixture1: Race mixture was against nature, it meant the end of culture, and it lowered the level of the higher race. Hitler’s technique of problematization—his way of showing why race mixture was against nature—was crude. He used the term “species” when talking about races, a common practice in 19th-century discourses. Accordingly, race mixture was against nature because “the titmouse seeks the titmouse, the finch the finch, the stork the stork, the field mouse the field mouse, the dormouse the dormouse, the wolf the she-wolf” (p. 284). Similarly, his readers were supposed to believe that the different human races did not seek each other. Neither groups nor individuals, but nature, became the subject of history, and nature