- Summary
- "Bystander Society provides an overview of the notion of by standing within Nazi Germany. It details the social conditions before and during the Nazi regime in Germany that eventually facilitated a series of mass murders. The role of ordinary Germans enabled the emergence of Nazisms and its subsequent exclusion, persecution, and extermination of people. The creation of a bystander society coincides with how most Germans were unable to act or developed growing indifference to the fate of non-Aryans, Jews, and people considered outside the Volksgemeinschaft. Bystander Society highlights the significance of changing social and political circumstances during the Nazi regime by referencing first-hand narratives of primary victims and people who stayed on the sidelines to avoid violence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Variant Title
- Conformity and complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Fulbrook, Mary, 1951- author.
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
©2023
- Locale
- Germany
Germany x History
Allemagne
- Contents
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Introduction: Bystanders and collective violence
Part I. The slippery dlope: docial degregation 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-448) and index.
Introduction: Bystanders and collective violence -- Part I. The slippery dlope: docial degregation 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.
