The Politics of Demonology The European Witchcraze and the Mass Production of Deviance

Ch. 10 (pp. 204-253), "The Holocaust, " approaches the Holocaust as an extreme case of "mass production of deviance, " similar to previous social manifestations of state production of "enemies" and conspiracies (e.g. the McCarthy era, the Stalinist Great Purge). Focuses on Hitler's obsession with a Jewish conspiracy, his concern with the necessity for a demonized inner enemy, the significance of the "Kristallnacht, " and the crusade for "racial purity." Discusses Nazi ideology that justified the Final Solution and the organizational structure of the "bureaucratization of violence" through the euthanasia policy, the organization of the SS and Einsatzgruppen, and the establishment of concentration camps.