Bystander society : conformity and complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust / Mary Fulbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulbrook, Mary, 1951- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Social aspects.

National socialism--Social aspects--Germany.

National socialism.

World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists.

World War, 1939-1945.

Antisemitism--Social aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Conformity--Germany--History--20th century.

Conformity.

Apathy--Political aspects--Germany.

Apathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The most commonly asked - and bitterly debated - question about Germans during the Nazi era is, 'how much did they know?'. Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that's the wrong question to ask. It's not what people knew; it's what they did with what they knew.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Bystanders and Collective Violence

Part I. The Slippery Slope: Social Segregation in Nazi Germany

1. Lives in Germany before 1933

2. Falling into Line: Spring 1933

3. Ripping Apart at the Seams: The Racialization of Identity, 1933-1934

4. Shifting Communities: Dissembling and the Cost of Conformity

5. A Nation of 'Aryans'? The Normalization of Racial Discrimination

Part II. The Expansion of Violence at Home and Abroad

6. Changing Horizons: Views from Within and Without

7. Shock Waves: Polarization in Peacetime Society, November 1938

8. Divided Fates: Empathy, Exit, and Death, 1939-1941

9. Over the Precipice: From Persecution to Genocide in the Baltics

10. Inner Emigration and the Fiction of Ignorance

11. Towards the End: Rescue, Survival, and Self-Justifications

Conclusion

12. The Bystander Myth and Responses to Violence

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Fulbrook, Mary Bystander Society

ISBN:

0-19-769174-9

0-19-769172-2

OCLC:

1382275710