Drunk on genocide : alcohol and mass murder in Nazi Germany / Edward B. Westermann.

By:

Westermann, Edward B

Contributor(s):

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)Publisher: Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press ; [Washington, D.C.] : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501754210
1501754211
9781501754203
1501754203

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drunk on GenocideDDC classification:

940.5318019 23

LOC classification:

RC451.4.H62

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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.

Abstract: 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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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