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Ethical Conceptions -- Nazi Ethics and Morality: Ideas, Problems and Unanswered Questions / Wolfgang Bialas -- Did the National Socialists Have a Different Morality? / Lothar Fritze -- Nazi Perpetrators -- Hitler's Motive for the Holocaust / Gunnar Heinsohn -- Nazis with a Clear Conscience? Civilian Functionaries and the Holocaust / Mary Fulbrook |
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A Question of Honor: Some Remarks on the Sexual Habits of German Soldiers during World War II / Regina Muhlhauser -- Nazi Ideology and Propaganda -- Nazi Military Ethics during Total Combat / Peter J. Haas -- The Role of Evolutionary Ethics in Nazi Propaganda and Worldview Training / Richard Weikart -- Nazi Ethics: The Medical Discourse -- Turning Away From the Individual: Medicine and Morality Under the Nazis / Florian Bruns -- "Mercy Killing" and Economism: On Ethical Patterns of Justification for Nazi "Euthanasia" / Uwe Kaminsky |
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The National Socialist Patient Murders between Taboo and Argument: Nazi Euthanasia and the Current Debate on Mercy Killing / Gerrit Hohendorf -- The SS as a "Moral Order" -- SS Ethics within Moral Philosophy / Andre Mineau -- Das Schwarze Korps and the Validation of the SS Sippengemeinschaft / Amy Carney -- The Moral Rigour of Immorality: The Special Criminal Courts of the SS / Christopher Theel -- Post-Holocaust Debates and Memory Politics |
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Universalism and Moral Relativism: On Some Aspects of the Modern Debate on Ethics and Nazism / Wulf Kellerwessel -- National Socialism -- Bolshevism -- Universalism: Moral Transformations in History as a Problem in Ethics / Rolf Zimmermann -- Ethics after the Holocaust: Jewish Responses / Isaac Hershkowitz -- On the Moral Profile of Public History: German Television, Nazi Perpetrators, and the Evolution of Holocaust Memory / Wulf Kansteiner |
| Summary |
This volume documents the still-rare encounter of moral-philosophical, historiographic and medical-ethical research on National Socialism, and looks at the ethical aspects of the National Socialist ideology, as well as at the moral convictions of National Socialist perpetrators, some of whom acted as ""perpetrators with a good conscience"". It furthermore discusses questions such as the content and rationale of Nazi race ethics, the ""euthanasia"" killings and the Nazi ethics of racial warfare an .. |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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National socialism.
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Political ethics -- Germany -- History
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National Socialism.
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The Holocaust.
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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National socialism
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Political ethics
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594
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| Subject |
Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bialas, Wolfgang, 1954- editor.
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Fritze, Lothar, editor.
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| ISBN |
1443858811 |
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9781443858816 |
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9781306549721 |
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1306549728 |
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1443854220 |
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9781443854221 |
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