General Information

Author/Creator

Koenigsberg, Richard A.

Language

English.

Published

Elmhurst, NY : Library of Social Science, c2009.

Physical Description

xvi, 117 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Subject

War > Causes.

Politics and war.

Genocide.

Nationalism > Psychological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

World War, 1914-1918 > Germany.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Richard A. Koenigsberg.

Content

Part I: The Holocaust -- The logic of the Holocaust -- Jewish disease within the German body politic -- Devotion to Germany -- Jewish individualism as negation of the German community -- Who shall live and who shall die? -- Jews too shall die -- The sacrificial meaning of the Holocaust -- Worshipping Germany -- Jewish destructiveness -- War as a sacrificial ritual -- The duty to lay down one's life -- Soldiers as sacrificial victims -- The right to destroy millions of men -- Die for Germany--or be killed -- Part II: War -- As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive -- Obfuscation in the depiction of warfare -- The magnitude of destruction and futility of the First World War -- What was going on? -- Reification of the nation-state -- Willingness to die as declaration of devotion -- As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive -- Virility and slaughter -- The First World War as perpetual slaughter -- Doctrine of the "offensive at all costs" -- The Battle of the Somme -- Virility, the Battle of Verdun -- The sacred ideal -- Virility and slaughter -- Aztec warfare, western warfare -- Aztec warfare -- The First World War -- Why the perpetual slaughter? -- The body and blood of the soldier gives rise to the reality of the nation -- War as potlatch -- Warfare as truth -- The nation-state kills its own soldiers -- Part III: The logic of war and genocide -- Dying for the country -- Why did hitler wage war? -- Identity of self and nation -- Aryan willingness for self-sacrifice -- Hitler's experience of the First World War -- Willingness to die for one's country -- Why do the best human beings die in war while the worst survive? -- Jewish "shirkers" -- As German soldiers die, so must Jews -- Sacrificial death stripped of honor -- The logic of mass murder -- The First World War -- Hitler and the First World War -- The euthanasia program -- Obedience (unto death) -- Hitler goes to war -- The explanation.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

9780915042241

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	355.02 KOE		General Stacks	-

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