Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Political Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,3-4 (2008) 51-72
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
National socialism
Abstract:
Argues against the tendency to broaden the circle of perpetrators and accomplices of the Holocaust by including all non-Jewish bystanders, with the exception of the tiny minority who rescued Jews, in their number. Historians and social scientists should be more careful with their terminology and try to develop a more differentiated vocabulary on the co-responsibility of the occupied in the Holocaust. In contrast to Eastern Europe, where mass murders of Jews took place on the spot and the entire non-Jewish population knew about them, in Western Europe there were no actual killings. Thus, the population was unaware of the intentions of those who assembled the Jews - for instance, in the Netherlands and Belgium. Examines the activities of the regular police departments in these countries at the time of the Holocaust, and concludes that even their participation in the round-up and deportation of Jews cannot be classified as complicity in genocide.
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