Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible by Alvarez, Alex

Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765157015)

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Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible by Alvarez, Alex

Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible

$120.00
Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible by Alvarez, Alex

Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Using a sociological and historical approach, the authors seek to highlight and assess the ways in which the influence, training, and expertise of elites were used in service to the genocidal agenda of the National Socialist Regime. The roles played by these elites have often been overshadowed by the perception that the Holocaust was largely a crime carried out by ill-educated thugs and mobs acting on nationalistic hysteria and xenophobic prejudice. While there are examples of such violence, this book clearly illustrates that rank-and-file perpetrators were largely organized and set in motion by highly educated and influential professionals who not only participated in the persecution and victimization of targeted groups, but who were also instrumental in conceiving, organizing, justifying, persuading and legitimizing the policies and practices of persecution and extermination.

Author: Alex Alvarez, Richard R. Fernández
ISBN-13: 9798765157015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2025
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 1.11h x 1.11w x 1.11d
By Alex Alvarez
By Alex Alvarez
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Dr. Alex Alvarez is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. In 2017-2018, he served as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. His main areas of study are in the areas of collective and interpersonal violence and his previous books include Government, Citizens, and Genocide, Murder American Style, Violence: The Enduring Problem, Genocidal Crimes, Native America and the Question of Genocide, and Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide.

Dr. Richard R. Fernández is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Northern Arizona University (NAU). His involvement in the current book grew out of a friendship with Alex Alvarez a colleague at NAU and scholar of genocide. They collaborated on a paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings in 2015 titled: Legitimizing Mass Killing: Social Elites, Genocide, and the Manufacture of Acceptance. This led to the development and drafting of the current submission of Lethal Elites.

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