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Hitler, the Holocaust, and war

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Hitler, the Holocaust, and war

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xvi, 117 pages ; 23 cm

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English
Pages
148

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Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War
2009-07-21, Library of Social Science
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Nations have the right to kill: Hitler, the Holocaust, and war
2009, Library of Social Science
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Table of Contents

Part I: The Holocaust
The logic of the Holocaust
Jewish disease within the German body politic
Devotion to Germany
Jewish individualism as negation of the German community
Who shall live and who shall die?
Jews too shall die
The sacrificial meaning of the Holocaust
Worshipping Germany
Jewish destructiveness
War as a sacrificial ritual
The duty to lay down one's life
Soldiers as sacrificial victims
The right to destroy millions of men
Die for Germany
or be killed
Part II: War
As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive
Obfuscation in the depiction of warfare
The magnitude of destruction and futility of the First World War
What was going on?
Reification of the nation-state
Willingness to die as declaration of devotion
As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive
Virility and slaughter
The First World War as perpetual slaughter
Doctrine of the "offensive at all costs"
The Battle of the Somme
Virility, the Battle of Verdun
The sacred ideal
Virility and slaughter
Aztec warfare, western warfare
Aztec warfare
The First World War
Why the perpetual slaughter?
The body and blood of the soldier gives rise to the reality of the nation
War as potlatch
Warfare as truth
The nation-state kills its own soldiers
Part III: The logic of war and genocide
Dying for the country
Why did hitler wage war?
Identity of self and nation
Aryan willingness for self-sacrifice
Hitler's experience of the First World War
Willingness to die for one's country
Why do the best human beings die in war while the worst survive?
Jewish "shirkers"
As German soldiers die, so must Jews
Sacrificial death stripped of honor
The logic of mass murder
The First World War
Hitler and the First World War
The euthanasia program
Obedience (unto death)
Hitler goes to war
The explanation.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Elmhurst, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.02
Library of Congress
JZ6385 .K63 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
148

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Open Library
OL22569182M
Internet Archive
nationshaveright0000koen_z4m9
ISBN 13
9780915042241
LCCN
2008041455
OCLC/WorldCat
262209096
Goodreads
7163691

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