- Summary
- The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particular how steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.-- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Loi du sang. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Chapoutot, Johann, author.
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Part I. Procreating: Origins: nature, essence, genesis
Alienation: acculturation and denaturing
Restoration: renaissance
Part II. Fighting: "All life is struggle"
The war within: fighting the Volksfremde
The war outside: "Harshness makes the future kind"
Part III. Reigning: The international order of Westphalia and Versailles: Finis Germaniae
The Reich and the colonization of the European east
The millennium as frontier.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Richmond Mouillot, Miranda, translator.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-482) and index.
Part I. Procreating: Origins: nature, essence, genesis -- Alienation: acculturation and denaturing -- Restoration: renaissance -- Part II. Fighting: "All life is struggle" -- The war within: fighting the Volksfremde -- The war outside: "Harshness makes the future kind" -- Part III. Reigning: The international order of Westphalia and Versailles: Finis Germaniae -- The Reich and the colonization of the European east -- The millennium as frontier.
"This book was originally published as La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi (c) Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2014."
