| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
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Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Alcohol and the Masculine Ideal -- 2. Rituals of Humiliation -- 3. Taking Trophies and Hunting Jews -- 4. Alcohol and Sexual Violence -- 5. Celebrating Murder -- 6. Alcohol, Auxiliaries, and Mass Murder -- 7. Alcohol and the German Army -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
This book reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. The book draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. The book argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. The book highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination. publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. |
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Germany. Wehrmacht.
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Germany. Wehrmacht. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Alcoholism and crime -- Germany.
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Mass murderers -- Germany -- Psychology.
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Alcoholism and crime. |
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Mass murderers. |
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Police -- Alcohol use -- Germany.
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Police -- Alcohol use. |
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Police. |
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Soldiers -- Alcohol use -- Germany.
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Soldiers -- Alcohol use. |
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Psychology. |
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HISTORY / Military / World War II. |
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Mass murderers -- Psychology. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Added Author |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Westermann, Edward B. Drunk on Genocide Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2021 9781501754210 |
| ISBN |
9781501754210 electronic book ; PDF |
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1501754211 electronic book ; PDF |
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9781501754203 electronic book ; ePub |
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1501754203 electronic book ; ePub |
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9781501754197 (hardcover) |
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150175419X (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501754210 |
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