Belonging and genocide [[electronic resource] ] : Hitler's community, 1918-1945 / / Thomas Kühne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779244003321
• Autore: Kühne Thomas <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-300-16857-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (vii, 216 p.))
• Disciplina: 943.086
• Soggetti: Community life - Germany - History - 20th century; Fellowship - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century; Genocide - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century; Antisemitism - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century; Shame - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century; National socialism - Social aspects - History - 20th century; Germany Social life and customs 20th century; Germany Social conditions 20th century; Germany Race relations History 20th century; Germany Armed Forces Military life History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Craving community : World War I and the myth of comradeship -- Fabricating the male bond : the racial nation as a training camp -- Performing genocidal ethics : togetherness in Himmler's elite -- Spreading complicity : pleasure and qualms in the cynical army -- Watching terror : women in the community of crime.
• Sommario/riassunto: No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer. In addition to the hatred of Jews or coercion that created a genocidal society, he contends, the desire for a united "people's community" made Germans conform and join together in mass crime.Exploring private letters, diaries, memoirs, secret reports, trial records, and other documents, ; the author shows how the Nazis used such common human needs as community, belonging, and solidarity to forge a nation conducting the worst crime in history.