Summary of Joel E. Dimsdale's Anatomy of Malice

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#1 The Holocaust was different from other genocides because it was conducted by a civilized country. It was also the largest mass killing ever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540132

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The Holocaust was different from other genocides because it was conducted by a civilized country. It was also the largest mass killing ever.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Nazi machinery of destruction targeted many types of people, but principally the Jews. This book is more of a meditation on diagnoses than motivations.

#2

The third toxic component that contributed to the Nazi genocide was social Darwinism, which was the belief that certain people had bad genes and were inferior, and that non-Europeans who lived in less developed cultures had bad genes.

#3

The Nazi genocide was planned and prepared for over a long period of time, and it was the behavior of the Nazis that brought them to trial. It was the peculiar nature of the killing and the killers’ responses to the acts of murder that kindled the psychiatric speculations.

#4

The Nazis developed a bureaucracy to carry out the genocide, which relied on tools such as precision, speed, and administration. The Nazis also removed Jews from social and commercial contact with others, then forced them to live in specific areas or ghettoes.

#5

The Nazis also conducted research on racial science. In one study,