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Author Glass, James M.

Title Life unworthy of life : racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany / James M. Glass.

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c1997.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.5318 G463l 1997    ---  Available
Description xix, 252 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-240) and index.
Contents The enthusiasts of death -- The indifference thesis and science as power -- Scientific practice and the assault on the Jewish body -- Psychotic preconditions to mass murder -- Documentary evidence against indifference -- The phobic group and the constructed enemy -- The uniqueness of the Holocaust -- Taboo, blood, and purification ritual -- Murderous groups as normal groups -- Psychosis and the moral position of enthusiasm -- The politics and process of hate.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Antisemitism -- Germany.
Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0465098460 (pbk.)

 
    
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