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Believe and destroy : intellectuals in the SS war machine / by Christian Ingrao : translated by Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library DD256.5 .I6413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingrao, Christian, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Croire et détruire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel--Officials and employees.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
- Intellectuals--Germany--History--20th century.
- Intellectuals.
- Germany.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 399 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Intellectuals in the SS war machine
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Polity, 2013.
- Contents:
- Part I The young men of Germany
- 1 A 'world of enemies' (I) 3
- The outbreak of war 3
- The silence of the Akademiker 9
- The 'time of troubles': an experience of war? 13
- 2 Constructing networks 17
- Places to study 17
- Places of association 22
- Networks of solidarity 29
- 3 Activist intellectuals 32
- The construction of academic knowledge 32
- Knowledge and activism, 1919-1933 38
- 'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich 42
- The shadow of the Great War 46
- Part II Joining the Nazis: a commitment
- 4 Being a Nazi 51
- The foundations of the doctrine 52
- The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment 61
- The appropriation of a system of beliefs 63
- 5 Entering the SD 70
- Whether to enter the Party or not? 70
- Towards the SD: Nazi careers 81
- Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistment 85
- 6 From struggle to control 91
- From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA) 91
- A 'world of enemies' (II) 100
- Control 107
- Part III Nazism and violence: the culmination, 1939-1945
- 7 Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety 119
- The curse of Germanic isolation 120
- The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment 128
- Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour 131
- 8 Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric 136
- From the reparative war to the 'great racial war' 136
- From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide 142
- Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics 152
- 9 Violence in action 161
- The experience of violence 161
- Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication 170
- A transgressive violence 184
- Violence as rite of initiation 202
- 10 SS intellectuals confronting defeat 209
- Defeat rendered unreal 210
- Finis Germaniae: the return of the old anxiety 216
- The denouement 222
- 11 SS intellectuals on trial 228
- Strategies of negation 228
- Strategies of evasion 236
- Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-382) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745660264
- 0745660266
- OCLC:
- 841672191
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