The Holocaust And European Societies: Social Processes And Social Dynamics (the Holocaust And Its Contexts)
by Frank Bajohr /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
