The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics (1st ed. 2017) (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

Synopsis

This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent’s Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg´s category of the ‘bystander’. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781137569844

Related ISBNs:

9781137569837

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Date of Addition:

04/10/21

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Andrea Löw

Edited by:

Frank Bajohr