The Law of Blood : : Thinking and Acting as a Nazi / / Johann Chapoutot.

The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Naz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. PROCREATING
  • 1. Origins: Nature, Essence, Genesis
  • 2. Alienation: Acculturation and Denaturing
  • 3. Restoration: Renaissances
  • PART II. FIGHTING
  • 4. “All Life Is Struggle”
  • 5. The War Within: Fighting the Volksfremde
  • 6. The War Outside: “Harshness Makes the Future Kind”
  • PART III. REIGNING
  • 7. The International Order of Westphalia and Versailles: Finis Germaniae
  • 8. The Reich and Colonization of the European East
  • 9. The Millennium as Frontier
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index