Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War
Author: Richard Koenigsberg
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: THE HOLOCAUST
Chapter I: The Logic of the Holocaust
Introduction
Jewish Disease within the German Body Politic
Devotion to Germany
Jewish Individualism as Negation of the German Community
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?
Jews Too Shall Die
Chapter II: The Sacrificial Meaning of the Holocaust
Introduction
Worshipping Germany
Jewish Destructiveness
War as a Sacrificial Ritual
The Duty to Lay Down One’s Life
Soldiers as Sacrificial Victims
The Right to Destroy Millions of Men
Die for Germany-or be Killed
PART TWO: WAR
Chapter III: As the Soldier Dies, So the Nation Comes Alive
Introduction
Obfuscation in the Depiction of Warfare
The Magnitude of Destruction and Futility of the First World War
What Was Going On?
Reification of the Nation-State
Willingness to Die as Declaration of Devotion
As the Soldier Dies, so The Nation Comes Alive
Chapter IV: Virility and Slaughter
Introduction
The First World War as Perpetual Slaughter
Doctrine of the “Offensive at All Costs”
The Battle of the Somme
Virility-The Battle of Verdun
The Sacred Ideal
Virility and Slaughter
Chapter V: Aztec Warfare, Western Warfare
Aztec Warfare
The First World War
Why the Perpetual Slaughter?
The Body and Blood of the Soldier Gives Rise to the Reality of the Nation
War as Potlatch
Warfare as Truth
The Nation-State Kills Its Own Soldiers
PART THREE: THE LOGIC OF WAR AND GENOCIDE
Chapter VI: Dying for the Country
Introduction
Why Did Hitler Wage War?
Identity of Self and Nation
Aryan Willingness for Self-Sacrifice
Hitler’s Experience of the First World War
Willingness to Die for One’s Country
Why do the Best Human Beings Die in War While the Worst Survive?
Jewish “Shirkers”
As German Soldiers Die, So Must Jews
Sacrificial Death Stripped of Honor
Chapter VII: The Logic of Mass Murder
Introduction
The First World War
Hitler and the First World War
The Euthanasia Program
Obedience (Unto Death)
Hitler Goes to War
The Explanation
Conclusion