Nations have the right to kill
Subtitle: Hitler, the Holocaust, and war
By: Richard A. Koenigsberg.
Publisher: Library of Social Science
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Elmhurst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780915042241
Subjects: War -- Causes; Politics and war; Genocide; Nationalism -- Psychological aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany
Description: xvi, 117 pages ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Holocaust; title: The logic of the Holocaust; title: Jewish disease within the German body politic; title: Devotion to Germany; title: Jewish individualism as negation of the German community; title: Who shall live and who shall die?; title: Jews too shall die; title: The sacrificial meaning of the Holocaust; title: Worshipping Germany; title: Jewish destructiveness; title: War as a sacrificial ritual; title: The duty to lay down one's life; title: Soldiers as sacrificial victims; title: The right to destroy millions of men; title: Die for Germany; title: or be killed; title: Part II: War; title: As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive; title: Obfuscation in the depiction of warfare; title: The magnitude of destruction and futility of the First World War; title: What was going on?; title: Reification of the nation-state; title: Willingness to die as declaration of devotion; title: As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive; title: Virility and slaughter; title: The First World War as perpetual slaughter; title: Doctrine of the "offensive at all costs"; title: The Battle of the Somme; title: Virility, the Battle of Verdun; title: The sacred ideal; title: Virility and slaughter; title: Aztec warfare, western warfare; title: Aztec warfare; title: The First World War; title: Why the perpetual slaughter?; title: The body and blood of the soldier gives rise to the reality of the nation; title: War as potlatch; title: Warfare as truth; title: The nation-state kills its own soldiers; title: Part III: The logic of war and genocide; title: Dying for the country; title: Why did hitler wage war?; title: Identity of self and nation; title: Aryan willingness for self-sacrifice; title: Hitler's experience of the First World War; title: Willingness to die for one's country; title: Why do the best human beings die in war while the worst survive?; title: Jewish "shirkers"; title: As German soldiers die, so must Jews; title: Sacrificial death stripped of honor; title: The logic of mass murder; title: The First World War; title: Hitler and the First World War; title: The euthanasia program; title: Obedience (unto death); title: Hitler goes to war; title: The explanation.