Ordinary People as Mass Murderers

Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and heterogeneous picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. Contributions approach the topic from various expertise (history, gender, sociology, psychology, law, comparative genocide), and address several unresolved questions. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?

List of Photographs and Figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Glossary	p. xvii
Introductory Thoughts and Overview	p. 1
Perpetrators of the Holocaust
Perpetrators of the Holocaust: a Historiography	p. 25
Male Bonding and Shame Culture: Hitler's Soldiers and the Moral Basis of Genocidal Warfare	p. 55
The Men of Einsatzgruppe D: an Inside View of a State-Sanctioned Killing Unit in the 'Third Reich'	p. 78
Female Perpetrators of the Holocaust
Women under National Socialism: Women's Scope for Action and the Issue of Gender	p. 99
Female Concentration Camp Guards as Perpetrators: Three Case Studies	p. 120
Psychological and Sociological Approaches
The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: the Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing	p. 145
On Killing and Morality: How Normal People Become Mass Murderers	p. 165
Perpetrators and Genocide
The Organisation of Genocide: Perpetration in Comparative Perspective	p. 185
International Law after the Nuremberg Trials and Rwanda: How Do Perpetrators Justify Themselves?	p. 201
Index	p. 221
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Ordinary People as Mass Murderers Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective

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