LEADER 03256cam a2200385 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230220144145.0 008 080923s2009 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 2008041455 020 9780915042241 (pbk.) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-gx--- 050 00 JZ6385 |b.K63 2009 082 00 355.02 |222 100 1 Koenigsberg, Richard A. 245 10 Nations have the right to kill : |bHitler, the Holocaust, and war / |cRichard A. Koenigsberg. 260 Elmhurst, NY : |bLibrary of Social Science, |cc2009. 300 xvi, 117 p. ; |c23 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117). 505 0 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. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 War |xCauses. 650 0 Politics and war. 650 0 Genocide. 650 0 Nationalism |xPsychological aspects. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 World War, 1914-1918 |zGermany. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6355_020000000000000_KOE |70 |8GEN |9161335OSA |bOSA |d2023-02-02 |eComFas |l0 |o355.02 KOE |r2023-02-02 |w2023-02-02 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 xY6vMVYJ 992 01 355_020000000000000_KOE |bWUU_ZXZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_FBL 966 |cIn the Research Room