The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a NaziJohann Chapoutot
Few eras in modern history have been as widely written about as the Third Reich; ever since Hitler’s rise to power, observers from within Germany and abroad have struggled to make sense of his terrifying policies, and his terrible popularity. While much recent scholarship has explored everyday life...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-329 |
| Review of: | The law of blood (Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018) (Weinreb, Alice)
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| Summary: | Few eras in modern history have been as widely written about as the Third Reich; ever since Hitler’s rise to power, observers from within Germany and abroad have struggled to make sense of his terrifying policies, and his terrible popularity. While much recent scholarship has explored everyday life and ordinary Germans’ experiences, historians have also closely examined the country’s legal and medical systems, political history, and Nazi cultural production. French historian Johann Chapoutot, however, notes that we lack a cohesive analysis of the Nazi worldview. The Law of Blood is based on a close reading of “leading thinkers” of Nazi Germany, some exhaustively studied (Goebbels, Speer), others only recently discussed (Walter Darré), and many who have been largely forgotten or ignored. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa041 |