Physical Description
xvi, 117 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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.
ISBN
9780915042241
091504224X (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117).
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.
