The law of blood : thinking and acting as a Nazi / Johann Chapoutot ; translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapoutot, Johann, author.

Contributor:

Richmond Mouillot, Miranda, translator.

Standardized Title:

Loi du sang. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

National socialism--Historiography.

National socialism.

National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Germany.

History.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

504 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particular how steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Procreating: Origins: nature, essence, genesis

Alienation: acculturation and denaturing

Restoration: renaissance

Part II. Fighting: "All life is struggle"

The war within: fighting the Volksfremde

The war outside: "Harshness makes the future kind"

Part III. Reigning: The international order of Westphalia and Versailles: Finis Germaniae

The Reich and the colonization of the European east

The millennium as frontier.

Notes:

"This book was originally published as La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi (c) Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book was originally published as La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi (c) �Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2014."

ISBN:

9780674660434

0674660439

OCLC:

1002823696