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Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
Christian Ingrao
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Description for Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
Paperback. There 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. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ; JFSC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 229 x 32. Weight in Grams: 616.
There 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 ... Read more
There 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745660271
SKU
V9780745660271
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About Christian Ingrao
Christian Ingrao is the director of the Institut de l'histoire du temps present. A specialist in Nazism and war studies, he also teaches at Sciences-Po. His previous work, Les Chasseurs noirs, was an international success. Christian Ingrao is the director of the Institut de l'histoire du temps present. A specialist in Nazism and war studies, ... Read more
Reviews for Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
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. Holocaust and Genocide Studies A chilling collective portrait of a generation blinded by the fervor of their ideology and oblivious to the suffering of others. ... Read more