Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

by Edward B. Westermann

Book Overview

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe.

Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150175419X
• ISBN13: 9781501754197
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up