Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany Westermann Edward B.
Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany Westermann Edward B. In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual…
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Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany Westermann Edward B.
In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. 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.
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 Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims.
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