Drunk on Genocide : Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany /
Westermann, Edward B.
Drunk on Genocide : Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany / Edward B. Westermann. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 5 b&w halftones - Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501754197 9781501754210
10.1515/9781501754210 doi
Alcoholism and crime--Germany.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
Mass murderers--Psychology.--Germany
Police--Alcohol use--Germany.
Soldiers--Alcohol use--Germany.
History.
Military History.
World War II.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Performative masculinity, alcohol and genocide, role of alcohol and sexual violence, alcohol and the holocaust,.
RC451.4.H62
940.5318019
Drunk on Genocide : Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany / Edward B. Westermann. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 5 b&w halftones - Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501754197 9781501754210
10.1515/9781501754210 doi
Alcoholism and crime--Germany.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
Mass murderers--Psychology.--Germany
Police--Alcohol use--Germany.
Soldiers--Alcohol use--Germany.
History.
Military History.
World War II.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Performative masculinity, alcohol and genocide, role of alcohol and sexual violence, alcohol and the holocaust,.
RC451.4.H62
940.5318019