{"product_id":"drunk-on-genocide-alcohol-and-mass-murder-in-nazi-germany-paperback","title":"Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward B. Westermann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrunk on Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Edward B. Westermann 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestermann 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. Westermann 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrunk on Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A\u0026amp;M University--San Antonio, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, and author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eHitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988471021869,"sku":"9781501770159","price":22.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VmJ6MEpLMzZIbEZ6ZzB3ck1zY3lJUT09.webp?v=1776217656","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/drunk-on-genocide-alcohol-and-mass-murder-in-nazi-germany-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}