Nazi ideology and ethics / edited by Wolfgang Bialas and Lothar Fritze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bialas, Wolfgang, 1954- editor.

Fritze, Lothar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

vi, 466 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This volume documents the still-rare encounter of moral-philosophical, historiographic and medical-ethical research on National Socialism, and looks at the ethical aspects of the National Socialist ideology, as well as at the moral convictions of National Socialist perpetrators, some of whom acted as "perpetrators with a good conscience". It furthermore discusses questions such as the content and rationale of Nazi race ethics, the "euthanasia" killings and the Nazi ethics of racial warfare and the role of the S5 as the vanguard of the National Socialist race state, the moral conditioning of Nazi perpetrators and their self-exoneration strategies after the defeat of Nazism, and German Holocaust memory politics. Due to the broad range of topics covered and methodologies discussed, this book will interest academic readers of various disciplines of the humanities, including German history, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies philosophy and medical ethics. It will also appeal to the common public interested in Nazi ideology and ethics, and their implications for current ethical issues and challenges, such as the consequences of moral indifference as well as the debate on euthanasia and mercy killing. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ethical Conceptions

Nazi Ethics and Morality: Ideas, Problems and Unanswered Questions / Wolfgang Bialas Bialas, Wolfgang 15

Did the National Socialists Have a Different Morality? / Lothar Fritze Fritze, Lothar 57

Nazi Perpetrators

Hitler's Motive for the Holocaust / Gunnar Heinsohn Heinsohn, Gunnar 103

Nazis with a Clear Conscience? Civilian Functionaries and the Holocaust / Mary Fulbrook Fulbrook, Mary 127

A Question of Honor: Some Remarks on the Sexual Habits of German Soldiers during World War II / Regina Mühlhäuser Mühlhäuser, Regina 149

Nazi Ideology and Propaganda

Nazi Military Ethics during Total Combat / Peter J. Haas Haas, Peter J. 177

The Role of Evolutionary Ethics in Nazi Propaganda and Worldview Training / Richard Weikart Weikart, Richard 193

Nazi Ethics: The Medical Discourse

Turning Away From the Individual: Medicine and Morality Under the Nazis / Florian Bruns Bruns, Florian 211

"Mercy Killing" and Economisra: On Ethical Patterns of Justification for Nazi "Euthanasia" / Uwe Kaminsky Kaminsky, Uwe 237

The National Socialist Patient Murders between Taboo and Argument: Nazi Euthanasia and the Current Debate on Mercy Killing / Gerrit Hohendorf Hohendorf, Gerrit 275

The SS as a "Moral Order"

SS Ethics within Moral Philosophy / Andre Mineau Mineau, Andre 307

Das Schwarze Korps and the Validation of the SS Sippengemeinschaft / Amy Carney Carney, Amy 323

The Moral Rigour of Immorality: The Special Criminal Courts of the SS / Christopher Theel Theel, Christopher 343

Post-Holocaust Debates and Memory Politics

Universalism and Moral Relativism: On Some Aspects of the Modern Debate on Ethics and Nazism / Wulf Kellerwessel Kellerwessel, Wulf 367

National Socialism - Bolshevism - Universalism: Moral Transformations in History as a Problem in Ethics / Rolf Zimmermann Zimmermann, Rolf 389

Ethics after the Holocaust: Jewish Responses / Isaac Hershkowitz Hershkowitz, Isaac 421

On the Moral Profile of Public History: German Television, Nazi Perpetrators, and the Evolution of Holocaust Memory / Stewart Anderson Anderson, Stewart, Wulf Kansteiner Kansteiner, Wulf 439.

ISBN:

1443854220

9781443854221

OCLC:

869434448

Publisher Number:

99958892382