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Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler the Holocaust and War

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

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