Belonging and Genocide

"This is a gripping, even splendid book, synthesizing a breathtaking amount of material."—Margaret Lavinia Anderson, University of California, Berkeley

"Thomas Kühne's excellent book with its provocative thesis is essential reading for anyone interested in the problems of genocide and mass violence. Kühne shows that the Third Reich's promise of a unified national community proved powerfully seductive to Germans and underpinned the Holocaust."—Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota
 

"Belonging and Genocide is a fascinating example of imaginative insight into the past. It is highly significant for our understanding of the Nazi genocide and may serve as a model to explain other cases of mass murder as well."—Donald Bloxham, author of The Final Solution: A Genocide

“Thomas Kühne, one of the world’s leading historians of German history, has written an explosive book that forever alters our understanding of the wellsprings of the Holocaust. In painful detail, he shows how the genocide of the Jews created a sense of belonging among the Germans. This is a disturbing, radical work, which no serious student of the immensely destructive twentieth century will be able to ignore."—Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University