Outside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities and the Rise of Nazi Violence

The following two chapters analyse the forms of violence and brutality that Nazi terror inflicted on Jewish men in the prewar years and demonstrate how such violence had an impact on Jewish masculine identities and gender relations. The chapters bring to light a new understanding of the bias of Nazi antisemitic violence prior to the actual Holocaust, with Jewish men as the primary victims. Chapters 5 and 6, thus, go against a historiography that solely focuses on racist ideology as the driving force of Nazi antisemitism and instead argue that German-Jewish men were targeted gender-specifically and victimized in prewar Nazi