Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Author:  Edward B. Westermann

In Drunk on Genocide, Westermann reveals 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.

Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated, "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. 

Published in association with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Paperback

294 pages