RT Book
T1 Drunk on genocide: alcohol and mass murder in Nazi Germany
T2 Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
A1 Westermann, Edward B. 1961-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1748730622
AB Zusammenfassung: "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."--Amazon.ca
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 255-281
NO Published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
CN 940.5318019
SN 9781501754197
K1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Psychological aspects
K1 Drinking of alcoholic beverages : Germany : History : 20th century
K1 Deutschland : Judenvernichtung : Alkoholkonsum : Einfluss : Geschichte
K1 Deutschland : Alkohol : Einfluss : Judenvernichtung : Geschichte 1933-1945