Bystander Society
Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
(Sprache: Englisch)
The most commonly asked--and bitterly debated--question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that's the...
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The most commonly asked--and bitterly debated--question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that's the wrong question to ask. It's not what people knew; it's what they did with what they knew.
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The most commonly asked--and bitterly debated--question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that's the wrong question to ask. It's not what people knew; it's what they did with what they knew.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Bystander Society “
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Bystanders and collective violence
- PART I THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: SOCIAL SEGREGATION IN NAZI GERMANY
- 1: Lives in Germany before 1933
- 2: Falling into line: spring 1933
- 3: Ripping apart at the seams: the racialization of identity, 1933-4
- 4: Shifting communities: dissembling and the cost of conformity
- 5: A nation of Aryans? The normalization of racial discrimination
- PART II THE EXPANSION OF VIOLENCE AT HOME AND ABROAD
- 6: Changing horizons: views from within and without
- 7: Shock waves: polarization in peacetime society, November 1938
- 8: Divided fates: empathy, exit, and death, 1939-41
- 9: Over the precipice: from persecution to genocide in the Baltics
- 10: Inner emigration and the fiction of ignorance
- 11: Towards the end: rescue, survival, and self-justifications
- CONCLUSION
- 12: The bystander myth and responses to violence
Autoren-Porträt von Mary Fulbrook
Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. Among other books, she is the author of A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, winner of the Fraenkel Prize, and, most recently, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, awarded the Wolfson History Prize.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Fulbrook
- 2023, 488 Seiten, 30 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 17,2 x 25,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0197691714
- ISBN-13: 9780197691717
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A commendable attempt to understand why people stood by and did nothing when confronted with Nazi barbarism, written by one of the greatest historians of modern Germany. Darren O'Byrne, The Critic
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