Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Crime, Law and Social Change
Angaben zur Quelle:
15,2 (1991) 135-149
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Based on theories of social psychology, analyzes the responses to the Holocaust of a group of left-wing German youths. In order to overcome the conflict between their humanist beliefs and the memory of the Holocaust, they used "neutralization techniques" first identified among juvenile delinquents. Twelve arguments were used in connection with the Holocaust, which are classified into four broad groups: denial of injury, denial of responsibility, denial of the victim, and condemnation of the condemner. Though the group all accepted the historical truth of the Holocaust and German guilt for it, they used techniques of abstraction and relativization to resolve their feelings of inner conflict, even creating the stereotype of the modern "vicious Jew" who dominates the Frankfurt underworld. Some of the group were aware of these techniques as they used them.
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