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The Nation State Consumes Body Parts
Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler the Holocaust and War
Richard A. Koenigsberg
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In the First World War, 9,000,000 men died for their countries. The bodies of these young
men were "thrown into the furnace to feed the flames of war" (David Lloyd George).
Some men, however, were more fortunate.
Limbless British Veterans after the First World War (Roehampton Military Hospital)
One of the most revolutionary books of the 21st Century—certainly the most disturbing—is Nations Have the Right to Kill. Based on thirty years of research, Richard Koenigsberg theorizes that nation-states come alive to the extent that that they are fed with the blood and bodies of sacrificial victims.

Lee Hall states that Dr. Koenigsberg's message is one that "anyone with an interest in changing the course of human history should internalize and reflect upon." Ruth Stein observes that Koenigsberg's ideas "cut through conventional notions about war," enabling us to "understand institutions in utterly new ways."

Scholars and students writing about collective forms of violence cannot afford to be without this book.

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Willingness to join the military in the First World War was the way in which one demonstrated one's devotion to one's nation. To fight for one's country—risking death and body mutilation—represented a "pledge of allegiance" in its most radical form. A reporter described his encounter with a Canadian soldier who had been wounded in battle.

"As I looked into his face and saw the look of personal victory over physical pain, I gripped him by the hand and said, "My good man, when you go back to your home, you need not tell them that you love your country—just show them your scars."

In Great Britain, soldiers' mutilations were spoken of in public rhetoric as hallmarks of glorious service and proof of patriotism. The wounded or disabled soldier was not less "but more of a man." According to The London Times, next to the loss of life, the "sacrifice of a limb is the greatest sacrifice a man can make for his country."

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

Richard A. 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
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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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