Nazi ideology and ethics / editors, Wolfgang Bialas, Lothar Fritze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bialas, Wolfgang, 1954- editor.

Fritze, Lothar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism.

Political ethics--Germany--History.

Political ethics.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ETHICAL CONCEPTIONS; NAZI ETHICS AND MORALITY; DID THE NATIONAL SOCIALISTSHAVE A DIFFERENT MORALITY?; NAZI PERPETRATORS; HITLER'S MOTIVE FOR THE HOLOCAUST; NAZIS WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE?; A QUESTION OF HONOR; NAZI IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA; MILITARY ETHICS DURING TOTAL COMBAT; THE ROLE OF EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS IN NAZIPROPAGANDA AND WORLDVIEW TRAINING; NAZI ETHICS; TURNING AWAY FROM THE INDIVIDUAL; "MERCY KILLING" AND ECONOMISM; THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PATIENT MURDERSBETWEEN TABOO AND ARGUMENT; THE SS AS A "MORAL ORDER"; SS ETHICS WITHIN MORAL PHILOSOPHY

DAS SCHWARZE KORPS AND THE VALIDATIONOF THE SS SIPPENGEMEINSCHAFTTHE MORAL RIGOR OF IMMORALITY; POST-HOLOCAUST DEBATESANDMEMORY POLITICS; UNIVERSALISM AND MORAL RELATIVISM; NATIONAL SOCIALISM - BOLSHEVISM -UNIVERSALISM; ETHICS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST; ON THE MORAL PROFILE OF PUBLIC HISTORY; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5881-1

OCLC:

875635606