From the Holocaust to Recent Mass Murders and Refugees. What Does History Teach us?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Anastasia D. Vakaloudi
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Author(s):  
Caroline Welsh

AbstractThe paper analyses the link between the National Socialist Euthanasia-Programme, the Holocaust and the effect of these mass murders on the children of perpetrators as depicted in Martin Walser’s Der schwarze Schwan. First performed during the Frankfurter Auschwitz-Process, the drama prefigures later psychoanalytical theories on the transmission of guilt to the second generation. A close reading of the drama reveals the importance of childhood memories and contrasts them with Walser’s statements on the effect of the holocaust on his childhood memories.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-477
Author(s):  
Yuri Radchenko ◽  
Andrii Usach

Abstract This study examines the German-sponsored Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense (Ukrains’kyi Legion Samooborony, ULS), both its rank and file and its Ukrainian and German officers. Drawing upon sources in German, Ukrainian, American, and Israeli archives, the authors analyze the Legion’s command structure, its relationship to the Third Reich, and its relationship to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists branch led by Andriy Atansovich Mel’nyk. The presentation of the political and military careers of lower-, mid-, and upper-level Legionnaires reveals their participation in killings of Jews, Poles, and other Ukrainians. The authors also identify the motivations of many of the actors. A close analysis of one case of German and Ukrainian “cooperation” in the Holocaust and other mass murders, this article relates to the debate over whether Holocaust perpetrators were “Ordinary Men.”


2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Efraim Zuroff

The equivalency canardEfraim Zuroff's text, originally published in Haaretz magazine, is a review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Snyder distinguishes six main mass murders commited by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union during the period of the Third Reich's existence. In Zuroff's opinion there are some significant differences between these tragedies. Dubious comparisons proposed by Snyder made the Holocaust most affected. Describing the Shoah as one of the six equally horryfying mass murders, the author ignores its ideological roots. Roots that sentenced to death all Jews  - regardless of their political views, religious practicies or the level of identification with Jewish community. Moreover Snyder takes no notice of the georaphical scope of the Holocaust. He also does not notice the fact, that the Nazis effectively managed to make so many Europeans their accomplices, who actively supported the Shoah. Fałszywy znak równościTekst Efraima Zuroffa, który pierwotnie ukazał się w piśmie Haaretz, to recenzja książki Skrwawione ziemie Timothy Snydera. Snyder wyróżnia sześć głównych masowych mordów popełnionych przez Niemcy i Związek Radziecki w okresie, który odpowiada istnieniu Trzeciej Rzeszy. Istnieją jednak, zdaniem Zuroffa, znaczące różnice między tymi tragediami. Na wątpliwych porównaniach, które proponuje Snyder, najbardziej „ucierpiał” Holokaust. Opisując Shoah jako jeden z sześciu równie straszliwych, masowych mordów, autor pomija jego ideologiczne korzenie, które sprawiały, że na śmierć skazany był każdy bez wyjątku Żyd, niezależnie od jego poglądów politycznych, praktyk religijnych czy stopnia identyfikacji z żydowską wspólnotą. Ponadto Snyder ignoruje ogromny zasięg geograficzny Holokaustu. Nie zauważa także skuteczności, z jaką naziści potrafili uczynić swoimi wspólnikami tak wielu Europejczyków, którzy w konsekwencji aktywnie wspomagali Shoah.


1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-155
Author(s):  
Philip G. Zimbardo
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1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 954-954
Author(s):  
Ira Ungar
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