The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

by Johann Chapoutot and Miranda Richmond Mouillot

Book Overview

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research

The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660439
• ISBN13: 9780674660434
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"