Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Contents	6
	Dedication	9
	Acknowledgements	11
	Introduction: Main Concepts	14
	Part I: The Overlapping Circles of Nationalism and race	34
	1 Identity and ‘Other-Ness’: From Nationalism to the Elimination of ‘Others’	36
	2 ‘Race’, ‘Nation’, and the ‘Internal Enemy’	61
	Part II: ‘Rebirth’ and ‘Cleansing’	98
	3 The Fascist Synthesis: ‘Rebirth’, ‘Cleansing’, and the ‘Ideal Nation-State’	100
	4 Imagining Elimination: Fascist Ideologies, the Construction of the ‘Other’, and the ‘Licence to Hate’	126
	Part III: National Socialism	152
	5 The ‘Unique’ German Case: Long-Term Trends and NS Agency	154
	6 The Radicalisation of the NS Project of Elimination and the ‘Licence to Kill’	190
	Part IV: Genocide, Agency, and ‘Licence’ in the NS ‘New Order’ (1939–45)	222
	7 National Eliminationist Projects and the Emergence of the NS ‘Agentic Order’	224
	8 The Fascist State as ‘Agent’: State Collaboration and Genocide in WW II	249
	9 Fascist Disciples as ‘Agents’: The ‘Fifth Column’ of the NS New Order	274
	10 ‘Licence to Kill’ and ‘Ordinary People’: The ‘Carnival’ of Eliminationist Violence	297
	Conclusions	324
	Notes	338
	References	344
	Index	406