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- catalog abstract "In this pathbreaking work of intellectual and cultural history, James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary Germans participate in the Final Solution? And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and "deserving" of extermination? Glass, a leading scholar of political psychology and political theory, argues that the answers lie in the rise of a particular ethos of public health and sanitation that emerged from the German medical establishment and filtered down to the common people. Building his argument on a trove of documentary evidence, including the records of the German medical community and of other professional groups, he traces the development, in the years following World War I, of theories of "racial hygiene" that singled out the Jews as an infectious disease that had to be eradicated if the Aryan race were to survive - as "life unworthy of life," in the words of Nazi propagandists and German scientists. In their zeal to preserve the health of the German Volk, he observes, the people of the Third Reich became willing participants in the Final Solution, thinking of themselves not as executioners, but as highly motivated actors in a culture-wide sanitation project with the objective of purifying blood and genes.".
- catalog contributor b10480663.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Glass, a leading scholar of political psychology and political theory, argues that the answers lie in the rise of a particular ethos of public health and sanitation that emerged from the German medical establishment and filtered down to the common people. Building his argument on a trove of documentary evidence, including the records of the German medical community and of other professional groups, he traces the development, in the years following World War I, of theories of "racial hygiene" that singled out the Jews as an infectious disease that had to be eradicated if the Aryan race were to survive - as "life unworthy of life," in the words of Nazi propagandists and German scientists.".
- catalog description "In their zeal to preserve the health of the German Volk, he observes, the people of the Third Reich became willing participants in the Final Solution, thinking of themselves not as executioners, but as highly motivated actors in a culture-wide sanitation project with the objective of purifying blood and genes.".
- catalog description "In this pathbreaking work of intellectual and cultural history, James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary Germans participate in the Final Solution? And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and "deserving" of extermination?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-240) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xix, 252 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Life unworthy of life.".
- catalog identifier "0465098444".
- catalog isFormatOf "Life unworthy of life.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Life unworthy of life.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "940.53/18 21".
- catalog subject "Antisemitism Germany.".
- catalog subject "D804.3 .G587 1997".
- catalog subject "Eugenics Germany History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Life unworthy of life : racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany / James M. Glass.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".