Uses the Nazi transformation of the most mundane human interaction - the greeting - to show how National Socialism brought about the submission and conformity of a whole society. This book offers insight into how the Third Reich's rituals of consent paved the way for the wholesale erosion of social morality
Contents
Shaping the beginning -- The greeting as initial gift -- German greetings -- An oath by any other name -- The rise of the sphere of mistrust -- Devaluing the present -- The long shadow of a fatal gesture
