Probing the limits of categorization : the bystander in Holocaust history / edited by Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morina, Christina, 1976- editor.

Thijs, Krijn, editor.

Series:

War and genocide ; v. 27.

War and genocide ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Bystander effect--Europe--History--20th century.

Bystander effect.

Accomplices--Europe--History--20th century.

Accomplices.

Ethics.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 364 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]

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" --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: probing the limits of categorization / Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs

Part 1. Approaches

Bystanders: catchall concept, alluring alibi, or crucial clue? / Mary Fulbrook

Raul Hilberg and his 'discovery' of the bystander / René Schlott

Bystanders as visual subjects: onlookers, spectators, observers, and gawkers in occupied Poland / Roma Sendyka

'I am not, what I am': a typological approach to individual (In)action in the Holocaust / Timothy Williams

The many shades of bystanding: on social dilemmas and passive participation / Froukje Demant

The Dutch bystander as non-Jew and implicated subject / Remco Ensel and Evelien Gans

Part II. History

Photographing bystanders / Christoph Kreutzmüller

The imperitive to act: Jews, neighbors, and the dynamics of persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 / Christina Morina

Martin Heidegger's Nazi conscience / Adam Knowleds

Natura abhorret vacuum: Polish 'bystanders' and the implementation of the 'final solution' / Jan Grabowski

Defient Danes and indifferent Dutch? popular convictions and deportation rates in the Netherlands and Denmark, 1940-45 / Bart van der Boom

The notions of social reactivity: the French case, 1942-1944 / Jacques Semelin

Part III. Memory

Ordinary, ignorant, and noninvolved? The figure of the bystander in Dutch research and controversy / Krijn Thijs

Hidden in plain view: remembering and forgetting the bystanders of the Holocaust on (West) German television / Wulf Kansteiner

Stand by your man: (self-)representations of SS wives after 1945 / Susanne C. Knittel

'Bystanders' in exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Susan Bachrach

Epilogue I: a brief plea for the historicization of the bystander / Norbert Frei

Epilogue II: saving the bystander / Ido de Haan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Morina, Christina, 1976- author. Probing the limits of categorization

ISBN:

9781789200935

1789200938

OCLC:

1031308494

Publisher Number:

99982098389

40028728161