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HMMSA Reads: Drunk on Genocide

  • Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio 12500 Northwest Military Highway San Antonio, TX, 78231 United States (map)

Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination.