Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond (eBook)

Compromised Identities?

Dr Stephanie Bird, Professor Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, Dr Bastiaan Willems (Herausgeber)

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2023
304 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-350-32778-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on self-understandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and later a topic that remains highly relevant today.Using the notion of 'compromised identities' to think about contentious questions relating to empathy and complicity, this inter-disciplinary collection addresses the complex relationships between people's behaviours and self-understandings through and beyond periods of collective violence. Contributors explore the compromises that individuals, states and societies enter into both during and after such violence. Case studies highlight patterns of complicity and involvement in perpetration, and analyse how people's stories evolve under changing circumstances and through social interaction, using varying strategies of justification, denial and rationalisation. Each chapter also considers the ways in which contemporary responses and scholarly practices may be affected by engagement with perpetrator representations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-350-32778-6 / 1350327786
• ISBN-13: 978-1-350-32778-8 / 9781350327788