Ethics and Extermination
Reflections on Nazi Genocide
- Author: Michael Burleigh, University of Wales College of Cardiff
- Date Published: September 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588164
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with 'the east', 'euthanasia' and extermination. They are linked closely by the sub-themes of professionals or 'experts' and an interest in competing systems of morality. 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. The product of twelve years' research on Nazi Germany, the book will be essential reading for anyone interested in scholarship on the period, or indeed in how we might view the period in future decades.
Read more- A series of concentrated and sharply-focused essays which summarise the main findings of Michael Burleigh's research
- Contains material on several important topics, including the Holocaust and the German-Soviet war
- Part of a sequence of highly successful books from this author, including The Racial State and Death and Deliverance
Reviews & endorsements
'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
See more reviews'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
'… powerfully written, intellectually challenging and morally courageous. It should be read by anyone who wants to know more about our century's inhuman practices … and should be required reading for students of Nazism.' Omer Bartov, The Times Literary Supplement
'I like books which make me think. Michael Burleigh poses troubling questions and shows how interacting ideas and policies - a colonising mission, eugenics, euthanasia - were gradually transformed and then fused by the opportunity of war into genocide and the Final Solution.' Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Sunday Telegraph
'This marvellously varied collection of his essays … Burleigh's work stands out for three reasons. First, he never loses sight of the fact that those involved were human beings. His use of evidence that illuminates individual experience is consistently superb and often painfully memorable. Second, he writes without jargon in an unaffected and often arresting style. And third, he does not strike facile moralising poses.' Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Telegraph
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: September 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521588164
- length: 274 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Germans and the East:
1. The knights, nationalists and the historians
2. Albert Brackmann, Ostforscher: the years of retirement
3. 'See you again in Siberia': the German-Soviet war and other tragedies
Part II. 'Euthanasia':
4. Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme
5. The churches, eugenics and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme
6. The Nazi analogy and contemporary debates on euthanasia
Part III. Extermination:
7. The racial state revisited
8. A 'political economy of the Final Solution'? Reflections on modernity, historians and the Holocaust
9. The realm of shadows: recent writing on the Holocaust.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×