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Probing the Limits of Categorization : The Bystander in Holocaust History / ed. by Krijn Thijs, Christina Morina.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: War and Genocide ; 27Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789200935
  • 9781789200942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • D804.7.M67 P76 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Probing the Limits of Categorization -- Part I Approaches -- Chapter 1 Bystanders: Catchall Concept, Alluring Alibi, or Crucial Clue? -- Chapter 2 Raul Hilberg and His “Discovery” of the Bystander -- Chapter 3 Bystanders as Visual Subjects: Onlookers, Spectators, Observers, and Gawkers in Occupied Poland -- Chapter 4 “I am not, what I am” A Typological Approach to Individual (In)action in the Holocaust -- Chapter 5 The Many Shades of Bystanding: On Social Dilemmas and Passive Participation -- Chapter 6 The Dutch Bystander as Non-Jew and Implicated Subject -- Part II History -- Chapter 7 Photographing Bystanders -- Chapter 8 The Imperative to Act: Jews, Neighbors, and the Dynamics of Persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 -- Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger’s Nazi Conscience -- Chapter 10 Natura Abhorret Vacuum: Polish “Bystanders” and the Implementation of the “Final Solution” -- Chapter 11 Defiant Danes and Indifferent Dutch? Popular Convictions and Deportation Rates in the Netherlands and Denmark, 1940–1945 -- Chapter 12 The Notion of Social Reactivity: The French Case, 1942–1944 -- Part III Memory -- Chapter 13 Ordinary, Ignorant, and Noninvolved? The Figure of the Bystander in Dutch Research and Controversy -- Chapter 14 Hidden in Plain View: Remembering and Forgetting the Bystanders of the Holocaust on (West) German Television -- Chapter 15 Stand by Your Man (Self-)Representations of SS Wives after 1945 -- Chapter 16 “Bystanders” in Exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Epilogue I A Brief Plea for the Historicization of the Bystander -- Epilogue II Saving the Bystander -- Index
Summary: Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders—it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint. Described by Hilberg as those who were “once a part of this history,” bystanders present unique challenges for those seeking to understand the decisions, attitudes, and self-understanding of historical actors who were neither obviously the instigators nor the targets of Nazi crimes. Combining historiographical, conceptual, and empirical perspectives on the bystander, the case studies in this book provide powerful insights into the complex social processes that accompany state-sponsored genocidal violence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Probing the Limits of Categorization -- Part I Approaches -- Chapter 1 Bystanders: Catchall Concept, Alluring Alibi, or Crucial Clue? -- Chapter 2 Raul Hilberg and His “Discovery” of the Bystander -- Chapter 3 Bystanders as Visual Subjects: Onlookers, Spectators, Observers, and Gawkers in Occupied Poland -- Chapter 4 “I am not, what I am” A Typological Approach to Individual (In)action in the Holocaust -- Chapter 5 The Many Shades of Bystanding: On Social Dilemmas and Passive Participation -- Chapter 6 The Dutch Bystander as Non-Jew and Implicated Subject -- Part II History -- Chapter 7 Photographing Bystanders -- Chapter 8 The Imperative to Act: Jews, Neighbors, and the Dynamics of Persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 -- Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger’s Nazi Conscience -- Chapter 10 Natura Abhorret Vacuum: Polish “Bystanders” and the Implementation of the “Final Solution” -- Chapter 11 Defiant Danes and Indifferent Dutch? Popular Convictions and Deportation Rates in the Netherlands and Denmark, 1940–1945 -- Chapter 12 The Notion of Social Reactivity: The French Case, 1942–1944 -- Part III Memory -- Chapter 13 Ordinary, Ignorant, and Noninvolved? The Figure of the Bystander in Dutch Research and Controversy -- Chapter 14 Hidden in Plain View: Remembering and Forgetting the Bystanders of the Holocaust on (West) German Television -- Chapter 15 Stand by Your Man (Self-)Representations of SS Wives after 1945 -- Chapter 16 “Bystanders” in Exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Epilogue I A Brief Plea for the Historicization of the Bystander -- Epilogue II Saving the Bystander -- Index

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Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders—it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint. Described by Hilberg as those who were “once a part of this history,” bystanders present unique challenges for those seeking to understand the decisions, attitudes, and self-understanding of historical actors who were neither obviously the instigators nor the targets of Nazi crimes. Combining historiographical, conceptual, and empirical perspectives on the bystander, the case studies in this book provide powerful insights into the complex social processes that accompany state-sponsored genocidal violence.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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