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The Holocaust and the German Elite Genocide and National Suicide in Germany, 1871–1945
By Rainer C. Baum
Copyright 1981
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1981, is a study of the social and political sources of amoral political rule in modern times. Only a moral indifference unparalleled in history made the Holocaust possible, and by linking the German imperial ambitions to the meaningless suffering and death in the concentration camps, the true significance of the Holocaust is revealed in all its horror. Understanding... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Why Moral Indifference? 3. On the Cultural and Social Sources of Moral Indifference in a Nation That Failed 4. Value Dissensus in ‘German’ Society 5. One-Dimensional National Elites: Impressions from the Pages of History 6. State and Society in Wilhelminian Germany: The Birth of Mass Politics 7. Weimar and After: The Politics of Ideological Militancy 8. The Nazi New Order: Institutionalized Disorder 9. Toward a Social Theory of Moral Indifference
Biography
Rainer C. Baum
