| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial. By Anthony M. Platt and Cecilia E. O'Leary. (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006. xii, 268 pp. Cloth, $72.00, ISBN 1-59451-139-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-59451-140-3.)

Anthony M. Platt's Bloodlines, written with Cecilia E. O'Leary, engagingly and personably traces the provenance of the original set of three infamous documents (the Reich Flag Law, the Reich Citizenship Law, and, most notorious, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor) from their seizure and donation to the Huntington Library by Gen. George S. Patton in 1945, through their disappearance there until their discovery and long-term loan to the nearby Skirball Cultural Center fifty-four years later. To place this story in a broad context, Bloodlines mixes the account of the discovery and display of the iconic documents with brief explorations of the American eugenics movement, the history of the city of Nuremberg, and the history of the Huntington Library. Particularly well executed is the summary of the genesis of the laws and their meaning and significance for Nazis and for Jews (curiously, and without comment, the authors consistently spell Holocaust with a lowercase h). Ultimately, Bloodlines recounts a historical triumph over institutionalized memory's sometimes ahistorical commitments.

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