Drunk on Genocide (eBook)

Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Edward B. Westermann (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
312 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5420-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann 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.

Westermann 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. Westermann 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.

Drunk on Genocide 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.

Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Autor

Edward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University—San Antonio, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, and author, most recently, of Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
• Reihe/Serie: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th century • Adolf Hitler • alcohol and genocide • alcohol and the holocaust • alcohol consumption • Allied Powers • Auschwitz • Axis powers • Berlin • camps and ghettos • Cold War • concentration camps • Eastern Europe • East Germany • Europe • european jews • final solution • Genocide • genocide motivation • german architecture • German Art • German Culture • German Economy • German Education • German Empire • Holocaust • Holocaust Commemoration • Holocaust denial • Holocaust documentary • Holocaust Education • Holocaust history • Holocaust Literature • holocaust memoirs • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Holocaust studies • Holocaust survivors • inebriated violence • Killing Fields • Mass murder • nazi genocide • Nazi Germany • nazi ideology • Nazi mindset • new historical perspective • performative masculinity • Performative masculinity, alcohol and genocide, role of alcohol and sexual violence, alcohol and the holocaust, • rank-and-file perpetrators • ritual humiliation • role of alcohol and sexual violence • Sexual Violence • SS and police • stone-cold killers myth • Third Reich • US Holocaust Memorial Museum • violence and revelry • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5420-3 / 1501754203
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5420-3 / 9781501754203