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Life unworthy of life, racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany, James M. Glass

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Life unworthy of life, racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany, James M. Glass

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life unworthy of life

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

605047379

Responsibility statement

James M. Glass

Series statement

Human rights cases online text

Sub title

racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany

Summary

In this pathbreaking work of intellectual and cultural history, James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary Germans participate in the Final Solution? And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and "deserving" of extermination?

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Prologue: the ground of killing -- 1. The enthusiasts of death -- 2. The indifference thesis and science as power -- 3. Scientific practice and the assault on the Jewish body -- 4. Psychotic preconditions to mass murder -- 5. Documentary evidence against indifference -- 6. The phobic group and the constructed enemy -- 7. The uniqueness of the Holocaust -- 8. Taboo, blood, and purification ritual -- 9. Murderous groups as normal groups -- 10. Psychosis and the moral position of enthusiasm -- 11. The politics and process of hate -- Epilogue : the site of killing -- Notes -- References -- Index

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