Under the title „CRIME/S AGAINST MANKIND, HUMANITY, AND CIVILISATION“ which includes historical crimes as criminis magna against humanity and civilisation within the 20th century, the author, an experienced political scientist, and social psychologist, presents the grounded concept of his approach to what he identified as the three basic genocidal events during the World Wars in Europe: Armenocide, Serbocide, Holocaust.
The first essay is the printed version of Richard Albrechts paper which was delivered to the “Second International Meeting on Genocidal Social Practices” (November 20-24, 2007), at Universidad de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, focussing on the continuity on Genocidal Social Practices including relevant aspects of preventing genocidal actions, too.
According to the printed version of this GRIN-booklet, Richard Albrecht wrote two specific appendices: (i) under the title “On Genocidal Affairs or What Had Happened” the author publishes three very short notes on what stayed in his mind, to be remembered by a productive anti-genocidal memory, as Ernst Bloch puts it, “which does not only remember what happened but also what still is to be done“; (ii) under the title “Murder(ing) Jews - secondly, academically, coldly …The “final solution” in Germany, 1941-45, as “realizing Utopia”: On the false world of a prominent German tenure-historian the author as scholarly as thoroughly reviews, as a radical critic, the long-living, and most effective, complete reversal (“Umwertung aller Werte” [Friedrich Nietzsche]) Hans Mommsen (*1930) did the last forty years in his various publications, which were – and are - widely accepted as legitimate contributions of a genocide scholar in that Gebilde named international “scientific community”.
Richard Albrechts booklet also presents the authors c.v. and short notes on the books the author published the last years, 2005-07.
Table of Contents
0.1. Vorwort
0.2. Summary
1. Zur Historizität historischen Wissens
1.1. Einleitende Hinweise
1.2. Wissenschaftliches Wissen
2. Aktuelle Zitatvarianten
3. Das L-3-Dokument
3.1. Die deutschsprachige Erstveröffentlichung der zweiten Hitlerrede
3.2. Kurzkommentare
3.2.1. Textsoziologisch-diskursanalytische Hinweise
3.2.2. Publizistik-historische Hinweise
4. Quod est in actis
4.1. „Nürnberger“ Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozeß
4.2. Rechtshistorische Hinweise
5. „The Historian as Detective“
5.1. Morgenstern-Logik
5.2. Canaris
5.2.1. Biographische Hinweise
5.2.2. Protokoll(ant)
5.2.3. Stimmungen
5.2.4. Exkurs zur Biographik
5.2.5. Multiple Selektivität
5.3. Lochner
5.3.1. Beredtes Schweigen
5.3.2. Erste Hinweise
5.3.3. Zeitzeugenbefragung 1945
5.3.4. Ergänzungen
5.3.4.1. Erinnerung an Maass 1947
5.3.4.2. Manstein-Prozeß 1949
5.3.4.3. Ritter-Buch 1954
6. „So viele Berichte. So viele Fragen“
6.1. Armenierbild
6.2. „Forschungsamt“
6.3. Periodisierung
Objectives and Themes
This work examines the sociological and political nature of genocide within the 20th century, specifically analyzing the patterns of genocidal mentality, state-sponsored destruction, and the mechanisms of denial. The author, an experienced social scientist, investigates historical events like the Armenocide, Holocaust, and Serbocide to establish a comparative framework for identifying early warning signs and developing strategies for preventing collective mass violence.
- Theoretical foundation of genocide and state-organized mass murder.
- Comparative analysis of Armenocide, Holocaust, and Serbocide as interconnected events.
- Critique of historical revisionism and the denial strategies used by perpetrator states.
- Investigation into the ideology of the "objective enemy" as a feature of totalitarian regimes.
- Development of an early warning system to counter genocidal tendencies.
Excerpt from the Book
I. Genocide is not only mass killing and killing masses
Genocide is not only mass killing and killing masses as traditionally well-known like massacres, mass atrocities, pogroms, riots, and slaughter, but ´modern´ serial killing, strategically planned and organized, not only of masses but of peoples as entire populations for racial, religious, ethnic, political, and even ideological reasons: neither traditional massacres and atrocities nor well-known mass slaughters, pogroms, and riots, and also not only administrative murder of masses (as a conventional measure applied by absolute rulership, dictatorship, tyranny, colonialism etc. before World War I.), but of people.
After World War I. traditional „administrative mass-murder” (Al. Carthill) became modern „administrative mass-murder as organised by a state” (Hannah Arendt) which later on was described as “policy of extermination” (Majorie Housepian), and as „organized state murder” (Helen Fein), and defined as „structural and systematic destruction of innocent people by a state bureaucratic apparatus” (Irving Louis Horowitz), indeed, as an outstanding „crime against mankind and civilisation as planned and organized by a state” (Richard Albrecht)[4], “the blackest page in history” (H.A. Gibbons).
Summary of Chapters
0.1. Vorwort: Introduces the scope of the genocide research and the author's methodological approach.
0.2. Summary: Provides a brief overview of the research themes and objectives.
1. Zur Historizität historischen Wissens: Explores the scientific nature of historical knowledge and the importance of methodically collecting and classifying historical subjects.
2. Aktuelle Zitatvarianten: Examines different variations in historical citations and their impact on interpretation.
3. Das L-3-Dokument: Analyzes the L-3 document as a key source for Hitler’s 1939 secret speech and its relevance to the Armenocide-Holocaust connection.
4. Quod est in actis: Discusses the role of the Nuremberg trials in verifying state-organized crimes and the historical legal context.
5. „The Historian as Detective“: Investigates the roles of specific figures like Canaris and Lochner in documenting and transmitting critical historical information.
6. „So viele Berichte. So viele Fragen“: Addresses the challenges of historical periodization and the image of Armenians in historical records.
Keywords
Genocide, Armenocide, Holocaust, Serbocide, State-organized murder, Totalitarianism, Objective enemy, Historical revisionism, Denialism, Early warning system, Collective violence, Sociology of killing, Human rights, Political ideology, 20th century history.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is this work primarily about?
This work is an investigation into the nature of modern genocide in the 20th century, exploring how states organize and execute mass murder against specific groups and how they subsequently deny these crimes.
What are the central thematic fields?
The central themes include the sociology of genocidal action, the comparative analysis of European genocides (Armenocide, Holocaust, Serbocide), and the political ideologies that facilitate totalitarian mass destruction.
What is the primary goal of the author?
The primary goal is to provide a scholarly foundation for genocide research that aids in the identification of genocidal patterns, with the ultimate objective of developing early warning systems for the prevention of future collective violence.
Which scientific methods are utilized?
The author employs a sociological and political science approach, focusing on structural functionalism, discourse analysis, and the critical review of historical sources and primary documents.
What does the main body address?
The main body addresses the classification of genocide as a modern state-organized business, the concept of the "objective enemy" in totalitarian regimes, and a critical analysis of historical revisionism, particularly regarding the Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide.
Which keywords characterize this work?
Key terms include genocide, Armenocide, Holocaust, Serbocide, objective enemy, denialism, state-sponsored violence, and political sociology.
How does the author connect Armenocide and the Holocaust?
The author identifies both as "modern" genocides, arguing that the Armenocide serves as the "essential prototype" for the totalitarian and technological extermination methods later applied during the Holocaust.
What is the "objective enemy" concept?
Based on Hannah Arendt's work, it refers to the practice of totalitarian regimes defining specific groups as "enemies" regardless of their individual actions, thereby removing any legal or moral barriers to their total destruction.
- Citation du texte
- Dr. Richard Albrecht (Auteur), 2007, Crime/s against mankind, humanity and civilisation, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/84824
