Overview
- Seeks to further our understanding of the Holocaust as a wider social process
- Analyses developments across European socities that contributed to the persecution of Jews
- Questions Raul Hilberg´s category of the 'bystander' within such societies
Part of the book series: The Holocaust and its Contexts (HOLC)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Relations Between Jews and Non-Jews at a Local/Regional Level
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The Aftermath. Post-War Returnees
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrea Löw 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Holocaust and European Societies
Book Subtitle: Social Processes and Social Dynamics
Editors: Frank Bajohr, Andrea Löw
Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56984-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56983-7Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84899-7Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56984-4Published: 30 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-5711
Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 348
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Germany and Central Europe, Religion and Society, Modern History