Drunk on Genocide : : Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany / / Edward B. Westermann.

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Alcohol and the Masculine Ideal
  • 2. Rituals of Humiliation
  • 3. Taking Trophies and Hunting Jews
  • 4. Alcohol and Sexual Violence
  • 5. Celebrating Murder
  • 6. Alcohol, Auxiliaries, and Mass Murder
  • 7. Alcohol and the German Army
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index