Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

One of a series of shows about the Rise of the Third Reich and the path to war. Dr. Edward Westermann is Professor of History at Texas A&M University (USA), where he teaches courses related to Modern and Contemporary European History. ...See moreOne of a series of shows about the Rise of the Third Reich and the path to war. Dr. Edward Westermann is Professor of History at Texas A&M University (USA), where he teaches courses related to Modern and Contemporary European History. Edward joins us to talk about how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. His book Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination. It was published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Written by Paul Woodadge See less