Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Zydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
260 (2016) 879-909
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Violence
Abstract:
Violence, individual and collective, was an inseparable element of the exercise of power by the Third Reich in all the occupied countries, applied to the subjugated populations and to the Jews in particular. Violence directed and drove the Germans' policy toward the Jews at all decision-making levels. The perpetrators were convinced of its necessity for the success of establishing the Nazi utopia. This was a factor in shaping a new system of moral values, which gave the perpetrators a sense of belonging to a peculiarly defined "community of crime", a vessel which made it possible to transform the utopian goals of the state into very tangible personal profits. Without the daily use of violence, which overcame existing psychological barriers and suppressed any internal resistance, the Holocaust could not have happened.
Note:
With an English abstract.
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