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The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot

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There is so much in “The Law of Blood’ that really makes you think, and there are many details that are important for a clearer understanding of the age. It is, therefore, something worth reading. Please tread carefully, however, and please be critical of all that you meet. It is a strange mix of interesting fact and weird interpretation, and although it is presented as hundred present guaranteed high class historical scholarship, it sometimes elevates correlation to cause, and even effect to cause, or at least never really drives the argument home. It is , also, often laced with sentences that raise red flags. Chapter one begins with:

‘According to Nazi writers, even the most disinterested and unprejudiced of minds agreed that a German man was a brave man, and a good one.’ Go figure!

And further on we are subjected to the sentence :
‘The Nazis liked dogs’.. All of them?

Lots of good things, but please read carefully.
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