LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE'S 
IDEOLOGIES OF WAR, GENOCIDE AND TERROR WEBSITE (A-H)

Pioneering the online publication of scholarship, our Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror Website--exploring the sources and meanings of collective forms of violence--has attracted a world-wide audience. Our Publications & Video section consists of 268 items: among the most significant papers, essays, lectures and videos on the topic.

We have listed below some of the publications featured on the IOWGT website (A-H).

You may click any of the links below to read the complete publication.
Atran, Scott
Baird, J. W.
  • To Die For Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon (Book Excerpts). “During the Great War, propagandists and poets alike joined hands in exalting the blood sacrifice of the youth of Germany, thus transforming carnage into ethereal national revelation.”
Bartov, Omer
Bein, Alex

Bessel, Richard

  • Nazism and War (Book Excerpts). “Only weeks before unconditional surrender, on April 7, 1945, Donitz called upon all naval officers to fight to the bitter end. Military police and SS units patrolled behind the lines to catch and kill any soldier who might be suspected of desertion.”
Burrin, Philippe
  • Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust (Book Excerpts). “Hitler viewed his war against the Jews as a battle for the salvation of the world, a fight to the death that could only end with the extinction of one of the two adversaries.”
Chen, Zhou
Demopoulos, Panayiotis
Faust, Drew Gilpin
Fornari, Franco
  • The Psychoanalysis of War (Book Excerpts): War is a spectacular establishment of a general human situation whereby death assumes absolute value: the ideas for which we die have a right to truth, because death becomes a demonstrative process.
Fritz, Stephen G.
  • Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II (Book Excerpts). “To serve a Volksgemeinschaft, to believe in Hitler as the German Fuhrer—these were ideals pressed into the souls of German youth. ‘Our freedom was service’: this line from a Hitler Youth song reflected the ideal of devotion to the community—even to the point of death.”
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.”
Gullace, Nicoletta
Herf, Jeffrey
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.”’
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