Christian Ingrao is the director of the Institut de l'histoire du temps présent. A specialist in Nazism and war studies, he also teaches at Sciences-Po. His previous work, Les Chasseurs Noirs, was an international success.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Glossary

PART ONE: The young men of Germany

Chapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I)
The outbreak of war
The silence of the Akademiker
The 'time of troubles': an experience of war?

Chapter 2: Constructing networks
Places to study
Places of association
Networks of solidarity

Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals
The construction of academic knowledge
Knowledge and activism (1919-1933)
'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich
The shadow of the Great War

PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment

Chapter 4: Being a Nazi
The foundations of the doctrine
The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological
re-establishment
The appropriation of a system of beliefs

Chapter 5: Entering the SD
Whether to enter the Party or not?
Towards the SD: Nazi careers
Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment

Chapter 6: From struggle to control
From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to
the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA)
A 'world of enemies' (II)
Control

PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945

Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety
The curse of Germanic isolation
The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment
Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour

Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric
From the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War'
From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide
Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics

Chapter 9: Violence in action
The experience of violence
Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication
A transgressive violence
Violence as rite of initiation

Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat
Defeat rendered unreal
Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety
The denouement

Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial
Strategies of negation
Strategies of evasion
Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case

Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide

Notes
Sources and bibliography
A piece of research and its context
A specific conceptual framework
List of archival collections consulted
Printed sources
Bibliography
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Glossary
PART ONE: The young men of Germany
Chapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I)
The outbreak of war
The silence of the Akademiker
The 'time of troubles': an experience of war?
Chapter 2: Constructing networks
Places to study
Places of association
Networks of solidarity
Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals
The construction of academic knowledge
Knowledge and activism (1919-1933)
'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich
The shadow of the Great War
PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment
Chapter 4: Being a Nazi
The foundations of the doctrine
The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological
re-establishment
The appropriation of a system of beliefs
Chapter 5: Entering the SD
Whether to enter the Party or not?
Towards the SD: Nazi careers
Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment
Chapter 6: From struggle to control
From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to
the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA)
A 'world of enemies' (II)
Control
PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945
Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety
The curse of Germanic isolation
The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment
Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour
Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric
From the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War'
From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide
Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics
Chapter 9: Violence in action
The experience of violence
Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication
A transgressive violence
Violence as rite of initiation
Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat
Defeat rendered unreal
Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety
The denouement
Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial
Strategies of negation
Strategies of evasion
Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case
Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide
Notes
Sources and bibliography
A piece of research and its context
A specific conceptual framework
List of archival collections consulted
Printed sources
Bibliography