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Ethics and Extermination
Reflections on Nazi Genocide
A series of essays on three aspects of Nazi Germany, 'the east', 'euthanasia' and extermination.
Michael Burleigh (Author)
9780521588164, Cambridge University Press
Paperback, published 11 September 1997
274 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg
'This marvellously varied collection of his essays … Burleigh's work stands out for three reasons. First, he never loses sight of the fact that those involved were human beings. His use of evidence that illuminates individual experience is consistently superb and often painfully memorable. Second, he writes without jargon in an unaffected and often arresting style. And third, he does not strike facile moralising poses.' Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Telegraph
This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with 'the east', 'euthanasia' and extermination. They are linked closely by the sub-themes of professionals or 'experts' and an interest in competing systems of morality. The collection includes important and wholly new contributions to the German-Soviet war and other national tragedies; to the controversial question of whether the Nazi analogy has any relevance to contemporary ethical discussions; and to the contemporary historiography, including works of fiction and literary criticism, of the Holocaust. The product of twelve years' research on Nazi Germany, the book will be essential reading for anyone interested in scholarship on the period, or indeed in how we might view the period in future decades.
Introduction
Part I. The Germans and the East: 1. The knights, nationalists and the historians
2. Albert Brackmann, Ostforscher: the years of retirement
3. 'See you again in Siberia': the German-Soviet war and other tragedies
Part II. 'Euthanasia': 4. Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme
5. The churches, eugenics and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme
6. The Nazi analogy and contemporary debates on euthanasia
Part III. Extermination: 7. The racial state revisited
8. A 'political economy of the Final Solution'? Reflections on modernity, historians and the Holocaust
9. The realm of shadows: recent writing on the Holocaust.
Subject Areas: Second World War [HBWQ], European history [HBJD]