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The law of blood : thinking and acting as a Nazi /

The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particular how steeped they were in the idea that history...

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Main Author:	Chapoutot, Johann (Author)
Other Authors:	Richmond Mouillot, Miranda (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	National socialism > Historiography. National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects. Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century. Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.

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