Himmler's Ethics of Duty: A Moral Approach to the Holocaust and to Germany's Impending Defeat

• Published in: The European legacy, toward new paradigms Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 55 - 73
• Main Author: Mineau, André
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.02.2007
• Subjects: Area studies; Cultural history; Duty; Ethics; European studies; Genocide; Germany; Himmler, Heinrich; Holocaust; Political morality; Political philosophy; Political sociology; World War Two

Heinrich Himmler is mostly seen as the all-powerful organizer who coordinated the police apparatus that reigned over occupied Europe and who supervised personally the concentration camp system. But Himmler was also a thinker or, at least, he perceived himself as such, and he was especially concerned...