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Stefan Kühl - Ordinary Organisations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust - 9781509502899 - V9781509502899
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Ordinary Organisations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust

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Description for Ordinary Organisations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust Hardback. 99% of all Jewish killings during the Holocaust were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kuhl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership of organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis.

Drawing on the well-researched case of the mass killings of Jews by a Hamburg reserve police battalion, Kühl shows how ordinary men from ordinary professions were induced to carry out massacres. It may have been that coercion, money, identification with the end goal, the enjoyment of brutality, or the expectations of their comrades impelled the members of the police battalion to join the police units and participate in ghetto liquidations, deportations, and mass shootings. But ultimately, argues Kühl, the question of immediate motives, or indeed whether members carried out tasks with enthusiasm or reluctance, is of secondary importance. The crucial factor in explaining what they did was the integration of individuals into an organizational framework that prompted them to perform their roles.

This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust by demonstrating the fundamental role played by organizations in persuading ordinary Germans to participate in the annihilation of the Jews. It will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of organizations, violence, and modern German history, as well as for anyone interested in genocide and the Holocaust.

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509502899
SKU
V9781509502899
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99-15

About Stefan Kühl
Stefan Kühl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld.

Reviews for Ordinary Organisations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust
“In this masterly researched and subtly conceptualized in-depth analysis of the infamous Police Battalion 101, Stefan Kühl shows hauntingly how the ‘normality’ of constraints, enrichment, comradeship, routine, and legality enabled Nazi perpetrators to achieve the ultimate abnormality. Ordinary Organizations will soon be considered as one of the key inquiries into the Holocaust.” Thomas Kühne, Clark University “An extremely interesting book, engaging with theoretical approaches to understanding the Holocaust. Kühl makes a strong case for the explanatory power of organizational sociology in understanding how ‘ordinary men’ could be brought to engage in acts of killing without seeing themselves as perpetrators. A controversial and stimulating read.” Mary Fulbrook, University College London "Kühl’s analysis takes us as step further than Browning’s and Goldhagen’s by emphasizing how state organizations produce results that would be incomprehensible if they were based solely on individual actions and motives." Augustine Brannigan, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

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