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Heldentod The Nazi Culture of Death graphically focuses on the Third Reichs conception and promotion of the Heros Death as it fostered and then fueled a cataclysm of apocalyptic carnage and destruction. This underlying driving force, ultimately self-destructive, is shown infusing both State sponsored propaganda and echoed by the personal battlefield images captured by its soldiers' personal cameras. In so doing it confronts the matter of subject vs. observer and their intimate connection. The original, often one-of-a-kind and never before seen photos also serve as a searing documentation of mans inhumanity to man and a stark warning to future generations. Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Molding the War Makers: From Cradle to the Grave: 1 WWISeeds of a Future War Sown and Transitions 2 KinderThe Iron Forge of Hitler Youth 3 Gott Mit UnsAn Ambivalent Faith and a Twisted Cross 4 War Games and Deadly Diversions 5 Heroes of the Third Reich and Lethal Leadership 6 On the Path to HeldentodThe Wounded and Wound Healers 7 Graves, Grave Markers and Grave Makers 8 Microcosms of MayhemDeathcards Chronicle the War 9 GotterdammerungThe Funeral Pyres of the Third Reich Part II: Victims of the Third ReichA Miracle of Evil: 1 PolandMurderous Intent 2 FranceThe Six Weeks War and a Divided Country 3 The EastWar of Annihilation 4 The Great Patriotic War 5 The War within a War 6 Final Words from the Third Reich 7 Post-scriptsAftermath, Justice Delayed and Retribution 8 The Day the Last Nazi Died.