The Racial State Analysis Questions:

1. How did this book change your perspective of society during Nazi Germany? Were any of the particular documents, examples, or arguments in the book surprising to you?

2. What seemed to be the origins of the "racial state" as the authors describe it? Who seemed to be chiefly responsible for creating the organized system of racism?

3. According to the authors, how widespread was the participation within Nazi society in contributing to racial programs, in other words, which distinct groups participated, and how did they?

4. Were there any segments of the population that seemed less likely to participate or opposed to the organized persecution of minority groups?

5. Often, the policy of eugenics and other positions taken by the Nazi government are presented as modern or showing modernizing characteristics. What stance does the book take on this? Do you consider the anomaly of Nazi Germany to have been a more modern or regressed state?