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The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics
L W
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This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent's Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg's category of the `bystander'. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely ... Read more
This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent's Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg's category of the `bystander'. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Holocaust and its Contexts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137569837
SKU
V9781137569837
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About L W
Andrea Loew is Deputy Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Germany. Frank Bajohr is Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany and Professor at Ludwig Maximilians University.
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