The Nazi Conscience
by Claudia Koonz · first published 2003
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The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar antisemitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary
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…Rise and Faull of the Third Reich by William L Shirer - the single best historical overview Anti-Semite and Jew - by Jean-Paul Sartre - an examination of the fundamental dynamic of nazi ideology The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz - examines the nazi worldview in detail Kill All Normies by Angela Nagel - examining the intersection of chan culture and far-right ideology * What we have with Daily Stormer is a quite…
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