{"product_id":"believe-and-destroy-9780745660271","title":"Believe and Destroy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party's elite protection unit, the SS. They theorized and planned the extermination of twenty million individuals of allegedly inferior' races. Most of them became members of the paramilitary death squads known as Einsatzgruppen and participated in the slaughter of over a million people. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on extensive archival research, Christian Ingrao tells the gripping story of these children of the Great War, focusing on the networks of fellow activists, academics and friends in which they moved, studying the way in which they envisaged war and the world of enemies' which, in their view, threatened them. The mechanisms of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"a thoughtful, well researched, and well written addition to the field of perpetrator studies—a work that illustrates convincingly the role of Germany’s “best and brightest” in the prosecution of genocide.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A chilling collective portrait of a generation blinded by the fervor of their ideology and oblivious to the suffering of others.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Packed with useful information on this important Nazi cadre.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStandpoint\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Presents gripping accounts of particular spectacles of violence and their role in imposing order.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"With this quest for understanding in mind, Ingrao has undertaken what is clearly a mammoth historical task, and ultimately written an astonishingly profound and in-depth book on a subject that ought never be forgotten.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Marx Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This is an important and original study of ideology and experience rather than yet another catalogue of crime, and it therefore offers a different and powerful explanation for how educated men became perpetrators of mass murder.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Evans, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"How did highly educated German intellectuals of a certain generation make themselves into believing Nazis, career-minded ideologues, and practitioners of terror? In compelling detail and in a manner consistent with the best accomplishments of recent scholarship, Christian Ingrao guides us astutely and assuredly through this shockingly normalized interior world.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Eley, University of Michigan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: The young men of Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe outbreak of war\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe silence of the Akademiker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 'time of troubles': an experience of war?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Constructing networks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlaces to study\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlaces of association\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNetworks of solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Activist intellectuals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe construction of academic knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowledge and activism (1919-1933)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shadow of the Great War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Being a Nazi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe foundations of the doctrine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ere-establishment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe appropriation of a system of beliefs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Entering the SD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether to enter the Party or not?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards the SD: Nazi careers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: From struggle to control\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 'world of enemies' (II)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControl\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe curse of Germanic isolation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Violence in action\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe experience of violence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonstrative violence, violence of eradication\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA transgressive violence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViolence as rite of initiation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefeat rendered unreal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe denouement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategies of negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategies of evasion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources and bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA piece of research and its context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA specific conceptual framework\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of archival collections consulted\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinted sources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865706574167,"sku":"9780745660271","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745660271.jpg?v=1722275198","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/believe-and-destroy-9780745660271","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}