Believe And Destroy by Christian Ingrao
Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
A compelling examination of how educated professionals became key agents of Nazi mass violence, tracing their journey from interwar universities into the SS and showing how nationalism, careerism, and pseudo-scientific theories fused into a militant faith that justified conquest and genocide. Through case studies and archival records, it reconstructs their mental world, revealing how scholarly disciplines—history, law, geography—were repurposed as tools of occupation and extermination on the Eastern Front. It exposes the interplay of belief, bureaucracy, and camaraderie that transformed intellectual conviction into systematic atrocity.
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- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- French
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- - Croire et détruire
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