Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany's history
- the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion
of Soviet Russia - this book explores the violence of states. All
three events were part of the Nazi colonial project and led to mass
killings, eventually resulting in the systematic murder of Jews
becoming a major war aim - one that Germany would pursue to the
end, even when it became clear that the military conflict could no
longer be won. Drawing on voluminous historical and sociological
literature, as well as documentary and contemporary evidence, the
author presents a new account of the phenomenon of extreme state
violence as a special category of violence, in which the armed
forces, maintained in a state of readiness, are used unnecessarily
and excessively, often on thin pretexts, and, unlike coercive
violence, only rarely for the purposes of carrying messages to the
public. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, history
and anthropology concerned with mass and state violence.
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