Believe and Destroy. Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

Englisch

9780745660264

John Wiley & Sons

Christian Ingrao

432

Gebundene Ausgabe

* Foreword * Acknowledgments * Glossary * PART ONE: The young men of Germany * Chapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I) * The outbreak of war * The silence of the Akademiker * The 'time of troubles': an experience of war? * Chapter 2: Constructing networks * Places to study * Places of association * Networks of solidarity * Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals * The construction of academic knowledge * Knowledge and activism (1919-1933) * 'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich * The shadow of the Great War * PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment * Chapter 4: Being a Nazi * The foundations of the doctrine * The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological * re-establishment * The appropriation of a system of beliefs * Chapter 5: Entering the SD * Whether to enter the Party or not? * Towards the SD: Nazi careers * Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment * Chapter 6: From struggle to control * From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to * the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA) * A 'world of enemies' (II) * Control * PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945 * Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety * The curse of Germanic isolation * The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment * Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour * Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric * From the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War' * From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide * Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics * Chapter 9: Violence in action * The experience of violence * Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication * A transgressive violence * Violence as rite of initiation * Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat * Defeat rendered unreal * Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety * The denouement * Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial * Strategies of negation * Strategies of evasion * Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case * Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide * Notes * Sources and bibliography * A piece of research and its context * A specific conceptual framework * List of archival collections consulted * Printed sources * Bibliography

236 mm

16.3 cm