The Nazi ethnographic research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in
          Ukraine, and its North American legacy

          EJ Schmaltz1 and SD Sinner2

          1History Department, 2German Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska,
          USA

          Scholars have recently debated the topic of German academics who directly or indirectly served
          the Nazi machinery of death and who then went on to successful professional careers after the
          war. This article examines the activities of two prominent émigré scholars, Drs. Georg Leibbrandt
          (1899-1982) and Karl Stumpp (1896-1982). These Ukrainian Germans emigrated to Germany after
          World War I. In America, most members of the Russian-German ethnic community never knew
          that Leibbrandt had represented Alfred Rosenberg's Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories,
          or that under his supervision Stumpp led a Sonderkommando in Ukraine. This unit classified
          hundreds of villages, indirectly documenting the annihilation of Jews and others. The authors
          conclude that one consequence of Leibbrandt's and Stumpp's 'return to normalcy' after the war was
          the growing fascination with genealogical research that affected the Russian-German ethnic
          community in North America - research partly based on 1930s and 1940s Nazi racial
          record-keeping.