Believe and Destroy Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

Foreword Acknowledgments Glossary PART ONE: The young men of Germany Chapter 1: A \'world of enemies\' (I) The outbreak of war The silence of the Akademiker The \'time of troubles\': an experience of war? Chapter 2: Constructing networks Places to study Places of association Networks of solidarity Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals The construction of academic knowledgeKnowledge and activism (1919-1933) \'Combative science\' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich The shadow of the Great War PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment Chapter 4: Being a Nazi The foundations of the doctrine The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment The appropriation of a system of beliefs Chapter 5: Entering the SD Whether to enter the Party or not? Towards the SD: Nazi careers Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment Chapter 6: From struggle to control From the \'Security Department of the SS\' (SD) to the \'Reich Security Main Office\' (RSHA) A \'world of enemies\' (II) Control PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945 Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety The curse of Germanic isolation The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishmentRedevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric From the reparative war to the \'Great Racial War\' From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics Chapter 9: Violence in action The experience of violence Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication A transgressive violence Violence as rite of initiation Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat Defeat rendered unreal Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety The denouement Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial Strategies of negation Strategies of evasion Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide Notes Sources and bibliography A piece of research and its context A specific conceptual framework List of archival collections consulted Printed sources Bibliography  Foreword Acknowledgments Glossary PART ONE: The young men of Germany Chapter 1: A \'world of enemies\' (I) The outbreak of war The silence of the Akademiker The \'time of troubles\': an experience of war? Chapter 2: Constructing networks Places to study Places of association Networks of solidarity Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals The construction of academic knowledgeKnowledge and activism (1919-1933) \'Combative science\' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich The shadow of the Great War PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment Chapter 4: Being a Nazi The foundations of the doctrine The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment The appropriation of a system of beliefs Chapter 5: Entering the SD Whether to enter the Party or not? Towards the SD: Nazi careers Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment Chapter 6: From struggle to control From the \'Security Department of the SS\' (SD) to the \'Reich Security Main Office\' (RSHA) A \'world of enemies\' (II) Control PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945 Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety The curse of Germanic isolation The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishmentRedevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric From the reparative war to the \'Great Racial War\' From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics Chapter 9: Violence in action The experience of violence Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication A transgressive violence Violence as rite of initiation Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat Defeat rendered unreal Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety The denouement Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial Strategies of negation Strategies of evasion Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide Notes Sources and bibliography A piece of research and its context A specific conceptual framework List of archival collections consulted Printed sources Bibliography