Ethics and Extermination : Reflections on Nazi Genocide
Editorial Reviews
Review
'This is a formidable achievement. As Auden forecast, accurate scholarship may uncover what has driven a culture mad: here is a contribution to that process.' Social History of Medicine
'This is a marvellous book that can be read ... by anyone interested in the Nazi period and the ethical and philosophical issues it throws up ... detailed historical research of the highest quality ... the style is direct, gripping and unevasive in its conclusions ... can only encourage people at least not to miss this book.' John Shand, Journal of Medical Ethics
'This book is to be very strongly recommended for its scholarship, clarity, and contemporary relevance.' Journal of Forensic Medicine
Book Description
This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concern three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with "the East," "euthanasia," and extermination. The collection includes important and wholly new contributions to the German-Soviet war and other national tragedies; to the controversial question of whether the Nazi analogy has any relevance to contemporary ethical discussions; and to the contemporary historiography, including works of fiction and literary criticism, of the Holocaust.
Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide,Michael Burleigh,Cambridge University Press,0521588162,Atrocities,Europe - General,Europe - Germany,Euthanasia,Germany,History,History - General History,History: World,Military - World War II,National socialism,World - General,World War, 1939-1945,Ethnography,Europe,European history: Second World War,First World War, 1914-1918,History / Europe / General,Inter-war period, 1918-1939,Second World War, 1939-1945,World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities
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