Dear Colleague,

We continue with Volume III presenting entries in the Library of Social Science's IDEOLOGIES OF WAR, GENOCIDE AND TERROR WEBSITE.

This issue of our Newsletter features the authors listed above. Dr. Koenigsberg considers Michael Geyer, Daniel Goldhagen, Roger Griffin and Jeffrey Herf among the most important authors who have written on Nazism, anti-Semitism and totalitarianism. Although none of these authors identify as psychologists, there is a profound psychological dimension contained within their writings. The greatest historians are great psychologists.

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MHGS

Ideologies of War, Genocide & Terror 
Publications & Video: Volume III: G-H

Gardiner, Steven

• Heroic Masochism: Masculine Privilege and the Uses of Pain (Paper)

Gentile, Emilio

• A Never-Never Religion, A Substitute for Religion, or a New Religion?

  “Civil and political religions belong to a more general phenomenon, secular religion. This term describes a more or less developed system of beliefs, myths, rituals, and symbols that create an aura of sacredness around an entity belonging to this world and turn it into a cult and an object of worship and devotion. The experience of totalitarian religions authorizes us to argue that politics was the battlefield where the new gods fought for supremacy over men during the twentieth century. Those who witness the advent of totalitarian religions were certainly convinced of this, and they considered such religions to be a deadly danger to humanity.”

• Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism (Paper)

Geyer, Michael

• “There is a Land Where Everything is Pure: Its Name is Land of Death” (Book Excerpts)

  “The tide had irrevocably shifted against the German war effort in fall of 1942. The Wehrmacht fought for three years and the nation was mobilized in a total war effort notwithstanding the Nazi leadership’s knowledge that the war effort would not make a difference in the outcome of the war.”

Goebbels, Joseph

• “The Jews are Guilty”: An attack on the Jews, November 16, 1941 (Essay/Speech)

  “Every Jew is our enemy in this historic struggle, regardless of whether he vegetates in a Polish ghetto or carries on his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg or blows the trumpets of war in New York or Washington. All Jews are part of an international conspiracy against National Socialist Germany.”

• Dr. Goebbels’ Last Broadcast Speech, April 25, 1945 (Video)

  ‘Despite certain defeat, Goebbels continued with the propaganda: “Every Berliner is responsible for his house or flat. Those that show a white flag are no longer entitled to protection. Such houses would be disease-causing bacteria on the body of the city.”’

Goldhagen, Daniel

• A reply to my critics: Motives, causes, and alibis (Article)
• Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Book Excerpts)

Goschler, Juliana

• Embodiment and Body Metaphors (Paper)

Griffin, Roger

• Longing to Belong: Cultivating Transcultural Humanism as a Source of Identity

  “The search for transcendence can assume a pathological aspect—taking on a nihilistic form inconsistent with the demands of survival. Ironically, it is the perversion of self-transcendent emotions, not self-assertive ones, which have been largely responsible for the chronicle of atrocities that human beings have inflicted on each other down through the ages.”

• Shattering Crystals: The Role of ‘Dream Time’ in Extreme Right-Wing Political Violence (Paper)
   
• Staging the Nation’s Rebirth (Book Chapter)
   
• The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ in the First World War

  “It was as if the fantasy of redemption through sacrifice—stubbornly entertained by both fighters and onlookers—was fueled rather than quenched by the blood of the fallen, like pouring oil on flames. The whole war can be seen as a collective act of redemptive self-sacrifice—transcendent meaning produced by the relentless flow of blood.”

• The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization

  We suggest that a fundamental psycho-social syndrome is at work transforming a non-violent, non-militant, ‘normal’ individual—perhaps with feelings and values which are too inchoate, confused and contradictory to be dignified with the term ‘worldview’—into a fanatical devotee of a creed demanding the execution of an act of destruction that sends a message wrapped in terror to a target audience.

• The Palingenetic Core of Generic Fascist Ideology (Book Chapter)

Gullace, Nicoletta

• White Feathers and Wounded Men: Female Patriotism and the Memory of the Great War

  On August 30, 1914, Admiral Charles Penrose Fitzgerald, an inveterate conscriptionist and disciple of Lord Roberts, deputized thirty women in Folkstone to hand out white feathers to men not in uniform. The purpose of this gesture was to shame “every young ‘slacker’ found loafing about the Leas’ and to remind those ‘deaf or indifferent to their country’s need’ that ‘British soldiers are fighting and dying across the channel.”

Gullestad, Anders M.

• Parasite (Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon) (Paper)

Haig, Douglas

• Features of the War (Report)

  “Our total losses in the war have been no larger than were to be expected. Neither do they compare unfavorably with those of any other of the belligerent nations. The total British casualties in all theaters of war, killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners, including native troops, are approximately three millions (3,076,388).”

Harendra de Silva, D. G.

• The Use of Child Soldiers in War with Special Reference to Sri Lanka (Article)

Hart, David

• The Idea of the ‘Sweet and Fitting Death for the Fatherland’ and its Critics in Selected War Films (Paper)

Hassan, Nasra

• An Arsenal of Believers: Talking to the “human bombs” (Article)

Hauerwas, Stanley

• Sacrificed on the altar of the nation: Christian realism and the unreality of war (Article)
• Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War (Paper)
• Telling the truth about the sacrifices of war (Article)
• War and American Difference (Book Excerpt)

Hemming, Judy & McKinley, Michael

• Major Wars and Regional Responses in Australia and New Zealand: International Relations as Apologetics and Exegesis (and Inadequate) (Paper)

Henry, Adam

• Nationalism, Politics, History and War (Article)

Herf, Jeffrey

• Narratives of Totalitarianism: Nazism’s Anti-Semitic Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Paper)
• The “Jewish War”: Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry (Paper)
• The Jewish Enemy (Book Excerpts)
• The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Book Chapter)
• The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Video Presentation)
• The Jewish Enemy: Rethinking Anti-Semitism in the Era of Nazism and in Recent Times (Paper)

Hicks, Stephen

• Explaining Nazism Philosophically (Book Chapter)
• National Socialist Philosophy (Audio Chapter)
• National Socialist Philosophy (Book Chapter)

Hillgruber, Andreas

• War in the East and the Extermination of the Jews (Essay)

  ’(Citing Hitler, Mein Kampf): “If during the War 12 or 15 thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.”’

• Was World War II the Result of Hitler’s Master Plan? (Excerpt from Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Western Civilization)

  “The conquest of European Russia was for Hitler inextricably linked with the extermination of these ‘bacilli’, the Jews. The racist component was so closely interwoven with the central political element of his program, the conquest of European Russia, that Russia’s defeat and the extermination of the Jews were inseparable for him.”

Himmler, Heinrich

• Himmler’s Speech at Posen, October, 1943 (Speech - Text)

  “We had the moral right, we had the duty to our own people, to kill these people who wanted to kill us. But we don’t have the right to enrich ourselves even with one fur, one watch, one mark, one cigarette, or anything else. Just because we eradicated a bacillus doesn’t mean we want to be infected by the bacillus ourselves.”

• Himmler’s Speech on the Extermination of the Jews (Speech - Video)

  Pozan, Poland, October 4, 1943 - Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, speaks to SS officers for three hours in a secret meeting. He reminds his officers of the loyalty he expects in their extermination of the Jews.

Hinchliffe, Alexander

• Contamination and Containment: Representing the Pathologised Other in 1950s American Cinema (Dissertation)

Hinton, Alexander

• Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (eBook)

Hippler, Fritz

• The Eternal Jew (Video, Nazi Propaganda Film)

Hitler Historical Museum

• World War 2 Death Count (Statistics)

Hitler, Adolf

• Mein Kampf (Complete Book)

Hobbes, Thomas

• Frontispiece to Leviathan (Image)

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

• The Soldier’s Faith (Speech)

  “In the midst of doubt, the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.”

Howard, Michael

• Men against Fire: Expectations of War in 1914 (Paper)

  “It was the ‘morale & discipline’ of the Japanese armed forces that all observers stressed.”

Hussein, Saddam

• Address by the Iraqi President to Mark the 82nd Anniversary of the Establishment of the Country’s Army (Speech, Jan. 6, 2003)
   
• President Saddam Hussein’s Address on the 9th Anniversary of the Grand Battle, ‘Mother of all Battles’ (Speech, Jan. 17, 2000)