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Chargement... Ordinary Organisations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaustpar Stefan Kühl
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During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan K�hl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis. Drawing on the well-researched case of the mass killings of Jews by a Hamburg reserve police battalion, K�hl shows how ordinary men from ordinary professions were induced to carry out massacres. It may have been that coercion, money, identification with the end goal, the enjoyment of brutality, or the expectations of their comrades impelled the members of the police battalion to join the police units and participate in ghetto liquidations, deportations, and mass shootings. But ultimately, argues K�hl, the question of immediate motives, or indeed whether members carried out tasks with enthusiasm or reluctance, is of secondary importance. The crucial factor in explaining what they did was the integration of individuals into an organizational framework that prompted them to perform their roles. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust by demonstrating the fundamental role played by organizations in persuading ordinary Germans to participate in the annihilation of the Jews. It will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of organizations, violence, and modern German history, as well as for anyone interested in genocide and the Holocaust. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In this ground-breaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that
organizations played in facilitating the Holocaust. Drawing on well-researched case
studies, Kühl shows how ultimately, beyond any personal motives it was the integration
into an organizational framework that prompted ordinary men to carry out atrocities.
• This is a major new analysis of how normal men from ordinary professions became
the perpetrators of the Holocaust
• In the book, sociologist Stefan Kühl show how the integration of individuals into
organizations facilitated mass murder. Above any personal motivations, such as
money or peer pressure, it was the organizational framework itself that prompted
individuals to commit atrocities
• The author’s previous books on eugenics and racism have been very well received
in the english-speaking world
• Ordinary Organizations is an invaluable contribution to historical debate which will
signifcantly advance our understanding of the origins and development of the
Holocaust. At the same time, it is a highly accessible book which should fnd a
broad readership amongst the many interested in Holocaust studies and the history
of WWII