TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westermann,Edward B.
AU  - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
TI  - Drunk on genocide: alcohol and mass murder in Nazi Germany 
T2  - Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
SN  - 9781501754210
AV  - RC451 .D786 2021
KW  - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
KW  - Schutzstaffel
KW  - Germany
KW  - Wehrmacht
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Drinking of alcoholic beverages
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Alcoholism and crime
KW  - Mass murderers
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Police
KW  - Alcohol use
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; 1. Alcohol and the Masculine Ideal --; 2. Rituals of Humiliation --; 3. Taking Trophies and Hunting Jews --; 4. Alcohol and Sexual Violence --; 5. Celebrating Murder --; 6. Alcohol, Auxiliaries, and Mass Murder --; 7. Alcohol and the German Army --; Conclusion; 2; b
N2  - This book reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. The book draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. The book argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. The book highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination
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