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Dachau and the SS - A Schooling in Violence (Hardcover)
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Dachau and the SS - A Schooling in Violence (Hardcover)
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Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau,
the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence
for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of
Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution'
and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS
to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus.
Throughout the pre-war era of Nazi Germany, Dachau functioned as an
academy of violence where concentration camp personnel were
schooled in steely resolution and the techniques of terror. An
international symbol of Nazi depredation, Dachau was the cradle of
a new and terrible spirit of destruction. Combining extensive new
research into the pre-war history of Dachau with theoretical
insights from studies of perpetrator violence, this book offers the
first systematic study of the 'Dachau School'. It explores the
backgrounds and socialization of thousands of often very young SS
men in the camp and critiques the assumption that violence was an
outcome of personal or ideological pathologies. Christopher Dillon
analyses recruitment to the Dachau SS and evaluates the
contribution of ideology, training, social psychology and masculine
ideals to the conduct and subsequent careers of concentration camp
guards. Graduates of the Dachau School would go on to play a
central role in the wartime criminality of the Third Reich,
particularly at Auschwitz. Dachau and the SS makes an original
contribution to scholarship on the pre-history of the Holocaust and
the institutional organisation of violence.
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