The logic of the Holocaust
Jewish disease within the German body politic
Jewish individualism as negation of the German community
Who shall live and who shall die?
The sacrificial meaning of the Holocaust
War as a sacrificial ritual
The duty to lay down one's life
Soldiers as sacrificial victims
The right to destroy millions of men
As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive
Obfuscation in the depiction of warfare
The magnitude of destruction and futility of the First World War
Reification of the nation-state
Willingness to die as declaration of devotion
As the soldier dies, so the nation comes alive
The First World War as perpetual slaughter
Doctrine of the "offensive at all costs"
Virility, the Battle of Verdun
Aztec warfare, western warfare
Why the perpetual slaughter?
The body and blood of the soldier gives rise to the reality of the nation
The nation-state kills its own soldiers
Part III: The logic of war and genocide
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?
As German soldiers die, so must Jews
Sacrificial death stripped of honor
Hitler and the First World War
