Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Genocide; a Critical Bibliographic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (1991) 264-298
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Bibliography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses how and why professionals have contributed to genocidal projects, taking the Holocaust as the primary case study. Identifies three categories of involvement and responsibility - bystanders, accomplices, and perpetrators. Shows how people from different professions (doctors, lawyers, ministers, teachers, scientists, postal workers, railway workers, etc). were implicated. Enumerates psychological and social factors which facilitated their involvement - fear, denial, psychic numbing, indifference, doubling, obedience to authority, amoral rationality, bureaucratization. Neither their ethical codes nor their service ideals have prevented professionals from becoming implicated in mass killing. Pp. 281-298 contain an annotated bibliography on the subject, listing books and articles in English.
Note:
Pp. 281-298 contain an annotated bibliography on the subject, including the Holocaust.
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