| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History |
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Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Performative masculinity, alcohol and genocide, role of alcohol and sexual violence, alcohol and the holocaust, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 7, 2021) |
| Subject |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
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Germany. Wehrmacht.
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| SUBJECT |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel fast |
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Germany. Wehrmacht fast |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Alcoholism and crime -- Germany
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Mass murderers -- Germany -- Psychology
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Police -- Alcohol use -- Germany
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Soldiers -- Alcohol use -- Germany
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HISTORY / Military / World War II.
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Soldiers -- Alcohol use
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Police -- Alcohol use
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Mass murderers -- Psychology
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Alcoholism and crime
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Psychological aspects
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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| ISBN |
9781501754210 |
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1501754211 |
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9781501754203 |
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1501754203 |
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