Believe and destroy
| Titel: | Believe and destroy : intellectuals in the SS war machine / by Christian Ingrao |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge : Polity, 2013 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 399 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780745660264 |
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Cover
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
X
- Preface
- p. vii
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- Glossary
- p. xiii
- Part I
- The young men of Germany
- 1
- A 'world of enemies' (I)
- p. 3
- The outbreak of war
- p. 3
- The silence of the Akademiker
- p. 9
- The 'time of troubles': an experience of war?
- p. 13
- 2
- Constructing networks
- p. 17
- Places to study
- p. 17
- Places of association
- p. 22
- Networks of solidarity
- p. 29
- 3
- Activist intellectuals
- p. 32
- The construction of academic knowledge
- p. 32
- Knowledge and activism, 1919-1933
- p. 38
- 'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich
- p. 42
- The shadow of the Great War
- p. 46
- Part II
- Joining the Nazis: a commitment
- 4
- Being a Nazi
- p. 51
- The foundations of the doctrine
- p. 52
- The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment
- p. 61
- The appropriation of a system of beliefs
- p. 63
- 5
- Entering the SD
- p. 70
- Whether to enter the Party or not?
- p. 70
- Towards the SD: Nazi careers
- p. 81
- Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistment
- p. 85
- 6
- From struggle to control
- p. 91
- From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA)
- p. 91
- A 'world of enemies' (II)
- p. 100
- Control
- p. 107
- Part III
- Nazism and violence: the culmination, 1939-1945
- 7
- Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety
- p. 119
- The curse of Germanic isolation
- p. 120
- The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment
- p. 128
- Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour
- p. 131
- 8
- Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric
- p. 136
- From the reparative war to the 'great racial war'
- p. 136
- From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide
- p. 142
- Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics
- p. 152
- 9
- Violence in action
- p. 161
- The experience of violence
- p. 161
- Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication
- p. 170
- A transgressive violence
- p. 184
- Violence as rite of initiation
- p. 202
- 10
- SS intellectuals confronting defeat
- p. 209
- Defeat rendered unreal
- p. 210
- Finis Germaniae: the return of the old anxiety
- p. 216
- The denouement
- p. 222
- 11
- SS intellectuals on trial
- p. 228
- Strategies of negation
- p. 228
- Strategies of evasion
- p. 236
- Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case
- p. 242
- Conclusion: memory of war, activism and genocide
- p. 249
- Afterword
- p. 261
- A piece of research and its context
- p. 261
- A specific conceptual framework
- p. 264
- Notes
- p. 266
- Sources and bibliography
- p. 347
- List of archival collections consulted
- p. 347
- Printed sources
- p. 349
- Bibliography
- p. 353
- Index
- p. 383
