Westermann Edward B.
Westermann Edward B. - Drunk On Genocide Alcohol And Mass Murder In Nazi Germany - Paperback
Westermann Edward B. - Drunk On Genocide Alcohol And Mass Murder In Nazi Germany - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Drunk On Genocide Alcohol And Mass Murder In Nazi Germany
Author(s): Westermann Edward B.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Barcode: 9781501770159
Pages: 312 Pages, 5 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/15/2023
Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
Category: War Crimes
Description: 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.
Title: Drunk On Genocide Alcohol And Mass Murder In Nazi Germany
Author(s): Westermann Edward B.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Barcode: 9781501770159
Pages: 312 Pages, 5 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/15/2023
Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
Category: War Crimes
