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Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introductory Thoughts and Overview
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Female Perpetrators of the Holocaust
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Psychological and Sociological Approaches
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Back Matter
Reviews
'Ordinary People as Mass Murderers is an extraordinarily felicitous book which
ought to be regarded as an important enrichment to the academic and even to
the political discussion. It offers complex, detailed and sophisticated analyses
in every single one of its difficult subjects, and at the same time it is inspiring
and well readable. The editors doubtlessly succeeded in offering a supremely
objective and factual contribution on this urgent, extremely challenging and
delicate theme.'
- Wolfgang Benz, Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Taterforschung (perpetrator research) is dominated by German scholars, and much of the sophisticated, detailed and empirically rich work has yet to find its way into English. This short collection of essays is thus very welcome as a contribution to the English-language scholarship on perpetrators...the book ranges widely, and the quality of the chapters is uniformly high, combining readabilty and up-to-date research. The book will be ideal for teaching at higher undergraduate or postgraduate levels...' - Dan Stone, Journal of Genocide Research
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
ANDREJ ANGRICK Researcher, the Foundation for Science and Culture in Hamburg, Germany
DONALD BLOXHAM Reader in History, the University of Edinburgh, UK
GERD HANKEL Researcher, the Hamburg Institute of Social Research, Germany
IRMTRAUD HEIKE Historian and author, Hanover, Germany
CHRISTINA HERKOMMER Research Assistant and Lecturer, the Free University, Berlin, Germany
OLAF JENSEN Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, University of Leicester, UK
THOMAS KÜHNE Professor of History, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
CLAUS-CHRISTIAN W. SZEJNMANN Reader in Modern European History, the University of Leicester, UK
JAMES E. WALLER Edward B. Lindaman Chair and Professor of Psychology, Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, USA
HARALD WELZER Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Memory Research, the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Book Subtitle: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
Editors: Olaf Jensen, Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583566
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55202-9Published: 03 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34933-0Published: 03 November 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58356-6Published: 03 November 2008
Series ISSN: 2731-5711
Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 228
Topics: European History, Modern History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Germany and Central Europe, Cultural History, Historiography and Method