Zákon krve - Myslet a jednat jako nacista – Chapoutot Johann (2021)

We know well what the Nazis committed, what atrocities they perpetrated; we also know what Hitler's Third Reich planned and what, fortunately, it did not manage to realize – for example, the extermination of thirty million Slavs and the enslavement of another hundred million. So we know what happened, but we do not know how it could have happened. Can the enormity of Nazi crimes be interpreted as a sudden irrational eruption of barbarism or perhaps as some kind of temporary collective madness? The French historian and leading expert on Nazism, Johann Chapoutot, clarifies and demonstrates through a rich source material that the Nazis were neither madmen nor barbarians, and they acted and behaved – from their perspective – entirely rationally. What they theoretically contemplated and subsequently practiced, they did not consider crimes, nor even as a 'necessary evil,' but rather as a sacred duty, an 'unpleasant but necessary task' that must be fulfilled in the face of the threat to their nation and their race. This task is dictated to them by nature itself, or rather by the laws of nature and blood, for man is a part of nature, a part of the great family of all living things, and is subject to the same natural laws (the law of species preservation and the struggle for survival) as other animals. A pure-bred German, loyal to his blood and his race, must primarily procreate,…