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Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine Hardcover - 2013

by Ingrao, Christian

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Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2013. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, dust jacket, xiv, 399 pages, CONTENTS: A 'world of enemies' (I), Constructing networks, Activist intellectuals Being a Nazi, Entering the SD, From struggle to control, Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety, Arguing for war : Nazi rhetoric Violence in action, SS intellectuals confronting defeat, SS intellectuals on trial, Translated from the French,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 people. Based on extensive archival research... .
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  • Title Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
  • Author Ingrao, Christian
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity, Cambridge, UK
  • Date 2013
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1125558736
  • ISBN 9780745660264 / 0745660266
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.46 x 1.37 in (23.55 x 16.41 x 3.48 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014497768
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.541

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About the author

Christian Ingrao is the director of the Institut de l'histoire du temps prsent. A specialist in Nazism and war studies, he also teaches at Sciences-Po. His previous work, Les Chasseurs Noirs, was an international success.