Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler the Holocaust and War
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Aztec Ritual Sacrifice
Feeding the Sun God		 Western Ritual Sacrifice, First World War
Feeding the Nation-State
Aztec Ritual Sacrifice Western Ritual Sacrifice
Aztec Sacrifice. Post-Conquest Nahua Painting, c. 1560. (Priests hold excavated heart to sun atop teocalli) c. 1650 ref 1500 Aztecs Spanish Conquest. French soldiers charging toward a German position during the early weeks of WWI. Most were slaughtered by German machine guns and artillery.
Richard Koenigsberg shows how societies create sacrificial death in order to glorify the nation-state. Nations come alive to the extent that that they are fed with the blood and bodies of sacrificial victims.

Lee Hall states that Dr. Koenigsberg's message is one that "anyone with an interest in changing the course of human history should internalize and reflect upon." 

This essential book provides the foundation for understanding the sources and meanings of collective forms of violence.

Mary-Helen Guider Shaw
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The Aztecs believed that as long as men could offer the blood and hearts of captives taken in combat, the "power of the sun god would not decline." The warrior who died in battle "brought the sun to life" and became a "companion to the sun." The rising sun was the "reincarnation of a dead warrior."

In Nations Have the Right to Kill, Dr. Koenigsberg theorizes that the First World War was fought in order to keep nations alive. Gods called France, Germany and Great Britain were fed with the bodies and blood of sacrificial victims. In the midst of the War, Maurice Barres praised French soldiers who were dying on a daily basis, stating that France would be "rebuilt from their souls." The "sublime sun of youth," he said, "sinks into the sea and becomes the dawn which will hereafter rise again."

Western nationalists have declared, "The individual dies so that the nation may live." The Aztecs believed that warriors died so that the Sun God could live. What is the difference between the two cases?

Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler the Holocaust and War

Richard A. Koenigsberg

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: THE HOLOCAUST

Chapter I: The Logic of the Holocaust

  • Introduction
  • Jewish Disease within the German Body Politic
  • Devotion to Germany
  • Jewish Individualism as Negation of the German Community
  • Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?
  • Jews Too Shall Die

Chapter II: The Sacrificial Meaning of the Holocaust

  • Introduction
  • Worshipping Germany
  • Jewish Destructiveness
  • War as a Sacrificial Ritual
  • The Duty to Lay Down One's Life
  • Soldiers as Sacrificial Victims
  • The Right to Destroy Millions of Men
  • Die for Germany-or be Killed
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PART TWO: WAR

Chapter III: As the Soldier Dies, So the Nation Comes Alive

  • Introduction
  • Obfuscation in the Depiction of Warfare
  • The Magnitude of Destruction and Futility of the First World War
  • What Was Going On?
  • Reification of the Nation-State
  • Willingness to Die as Declaration of Devotion
  • As the Soldier Dies, so The Nation Comes Alive

Chapter IV: Virility and Slaughter

  • Introduction
  • The First World War as Perpetual Slaughter
  • Doctrine of the “Offensive at All Costs”
  • The Battle of the Somme
  • Virility-The Battle of Verdun
  • The Sacred Ideal
  • Virility and Slaughter

Chapter V: Aztec Warfare, Western Warfare

  • Aztec Warfare
  • The First World War
  • Why the Perpetual Slaughter?
  • The Body and Blood of the Soldier Gives Rise to the Reality of the Nation
  • War as Potlatch
  • Warfare as Truth
  • The Nation-State Kills Its Own Soldiers

PART THREE: THE LOGIC OF WAR AND GENOCIDE

Chapter VI: Dying for the Country

  • Introduction
  • Why Did Hitler Wage War?
  • Identity of Self and Nation
  • Aryan Willingness for Self-Sacrifice
  • Hitler's Experience of the First World War
  • Willingness to Die for One's Country
  • Why do the Best Human Beings Die in War While the Worst Survive?
  • Jewish “Shirkers”
  • As German Soldiers Die, So Must Jews
  • Sacrificial Death Stripped of Honor

Chapter VII: The Logic of Mass Murder

  • Introduction
  • The First World War
  • Hitler and the First World War
  • The Euthanasia Program
  • Obedience (Unto Death)
  • Hitler Goes to War
  • The Explanation
  • Conclusion

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