Morality After Auschwitz: The Radical Challenge of the Nazi Ethic

Endorsements: This book is a study of the Holocaust as problem in ethical theory. How could a whole society participate in an ethic of mass torture and genocide for over a decade without opposition from responsible political legal medical or religious leaders? How does a society create and adopt its ethical norms? This is a study in narrative ethics at its best yet the authors purpose is to discover how a people redefined evil to the degree that they committed heinous atrocities that were reprehensible under normal circumstances. --Guy Greenfield Southwestern Journal of Theology Peter Haas gives us a good overall description of the Holocaust the way the Nazis and their myriad collaborators treated the Jews. The book . . . is well formulated and well written. It makes a good one-volume introduction to the Holocaust. --Frederick K. Wentz Lutheran Quarterly Peter Haas urges us to recognize ourselves in the perpetrators of the Holocaust. . . . In the course of setting forth his position the author offers a concise and wonderfully accessible account of the formation of German political culture from Bismarck through Hitler. . . . Morality After Auschwitz is a serious book that should provoke long thoughts and perhaps useful disputes about the power of ethics to shape political cultures. --First Things