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 knowledge
Knowledge 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-establishment
Redevelop 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
Christian Ingrao is the director of the Institut del histoire du temps present. A specialist in Nazism andwar studies, he also teaches at Sciences-Po. His previous work, Les Chasseurs Noirs, was an international success.
"a thoughtful, well researched, and well written addition to thefield of perpetrator studies a work that illustratesconvincingly the role of Germany s best andbrightest in the prosecution of genocide." Holocaust and Genocide Studies "A chilling collective portrait of a generation blinded by thefervor of their ideology and oblivious to the suffering ofothers." Wall Street Journal "Packed with useful information on this important Nazicadre." Standpoint "Presents gripping accounts of particular spectacles of violenceand their role in imposing order." Los Angeles Review of Books "With this quest for understanding in mind, Ingrao has undertakenwhat is clearly a mammoth historical task, and ultimately writtenan astonishingly profound and in-depth book on a subject that oughtnever be forgotten." David Marx Book Reviews "This is an important and original study of ideology and experiencerather than yet another catalogue of crime, and it therefore offersa different and powerful explanation for how educated men becameperpetrators of mass murder." Richard Evans, University of Cambridge "How did highly educated German intellectuals of a certaingeneration make themselves into believing Nazis, career-mindedideologues, and practitioners of terror? In compelling detail andin a manner consistent with the best accomplishments of recentscholarship, Christian Ingrao guides us astutely and assuredlythrough this shockingly normalized interior world." Geoffrey Eley, University of Michigan
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