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1. The Role of Civilians and Civil Society in Preventing Mass Atrocities
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Sophie Davis Fellow Zachariah Mampilly. “Building Relationships, Building Peace: The Role of ... ), Congo Research Group “Preventing Atrocities in a State Unwilling to Address its Past: The Role of -
2. Bystanders
witnessed by “bystanders,” much was different about the Holocaust. Leaders of ... from the rest of the population. Many people became “bystanders” to this ever-radicalizing program long ... ”? The term “bystander” is used in the context of the Holocaust in two ways. The first refers to external ... or international “bystanders”—witnesses in a nonliteral sense because of their distance from the
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3. How Was the Holocaust Possible?
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The Role and Motivations of Ordinary People By ... the Holocaust possible? No one questions the decisive role of German chancellor Adolf Hitler and other ... of research documents the role that ordinary people in Nazi Germany and Europe played in the -
4. Bringing the Lessons Home Program
bystander.” —Class of 2015 Ambassador, Eastern Senior High School Graduate, Duke University Student “The ... for the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition Earn up to 40 hours of community-service credit Become ... eligible to participate in the Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Highlights of the ... founded on two core principles: The history and lessons of the Holocaust are relevant to today’s world
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5. References
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Nation as a Training Camp”). [35] Ervin Staub, “The Evolution of Bystanders, German Psychoanalysts, and ... and Tony Judt, eds. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton ... Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust (New York: Berghahn Books -
6. Some Were Neighbors
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Instead of splitting the “bystanders” into two black and white categories—a majority of “indifferent” or ... Range of Involvement in Events of the Holocaust After the war many ordinary Germans and Europeans ... claimed that they were “not involved” in Nazi crimes.1 The construction of such postwar memories—and -
7. Causes and Motivations
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Because the Holocaust involved people in different roles and situations living in countries across ... Europe over a period of time—from Nazi Germany in the 1930s to German-occupied Hungary in 1944—one broad ... usually a combination of motivations and pressures were in play. For the Holocaust as other periods of -
8. Defining the Challenge
speak of the victims of genocide and mass atrocities, their numbers too staggering to count. Individual ... the challenges of bureaucracies and budgets, policies and political will. But we must never lose sight ... of the evil inherent in the subject matter and the human beings who suffer as a result of that evil ... . In the last century, tens of millions of people lost their lives in episodes of mass killings
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9. Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project
recording the testimonies of witnesses, bystanders, collaborators, and perpetrators in Holocaust-related ... Director of the project for the Museum while Alexander von Plato directed the Institute's role in the
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10. Alma Huselja
threads, her research highlights the role of property seizure vis à vis the NDH’s attempts at state ... Professional Background Alma Huselja is a PhD student in history at the University of North ... Independent State of Croatia.” Her research examines the expropriation of "non-Aryan" property by the Ustaša ... regime and the process of its seizure and redistribution. It looks at the ideas, individuals, and
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11. Beyond the Canon: New UN Tool Suggests Broader Base for Thinking about Atrocity Prevention
Indonesia, East Timor, and Guatemala, where the U.S. role was “less that of a bystander and more ... In a small but meaningful gesture, the photographs on the cover of the UN’s new framework of ... analysis for assessing the risk of genocide and other mass atrocities go beyond what I call the ... genocide canon—the cases of Armenia, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and, of late, Darfur that are
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12. Dr. Adam Knowles
The Bystander in Holocaust History (2017). Dr. Knowles is also the author of several articles, reviews ... bureaucrat, to illuminates Heidegger’s role in the administrative history of Freiburg University, and his ... -Universität in Heidelberg, Germany, and his BA in History from University of Texas in Austin. As the Judith B ... lecture in German. Dr. Knowles is the author of the monograph The Paradox of Silence: Martin Heidegger
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13. Public Radio Special: Confronting Hatred 70 Years After the Holocaust
: Since the Holocaust, there have been many studies on bystander behavior. A number of famous experiments ... radio stations across the country, brings together a broad range of voices to talk about racism ... discussion of dangerous ideology must be informed by the Holocaust. The Holocaust epitomizes unchecked hatred ... during the Holocaust. But the administration of any policy on a broad scale requires the participation of
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14. SS and the Holocaust
the operation. The SS played the leading role in all of the major operations of the ... Germany's Axis partners, and tens of thousands of civilian bystanders in Germany and the other Axis ... 's command played the leading and coordinating role in the dreadful success of the Final Solution ... also took the leading role in operations against other real and perceived enemies of the Third Reich
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15. Introduction to the Holocaust
active and deadly roles in the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. Other German institutions involved in ... ? The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million ... .1 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the years of the Holocaust as 1933–1945. The ... targeting Germany’s Jews. The Nazi persecution of Jews became increasingly radical between 1933 and 1945
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16. Oral history interview with Waltrudis Becker
Reutlingen; local complaints about the government; the role of her husband as the local farm leader; the ... Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project ... The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr. ... The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on
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17. One of Many Tours
frozen by the time I got to the Raoul Wallenberg Place entrance of the Museum. I got up anyway ... because I had committed myself to being one of the tour guides for the 93 members of the Frederick ... Raoul Wallenberg Place entrance of the Museum. I got up anyway because I had committed myself to ... being one of the tour guides for the 93 members of the Frederick Presbyterian Church who were
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18. Women’s Experiences of Genocide
reproductive role were weaponized against them. Men raped hundreds of thousands of Tutsi women during the ... consequence of the role attributed to them” in the cartoons. Norah Bagarinka, a Tutsi, was targeted ... the commission of a prohibited act with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical ... organized mass killings, of which men are more likely to be the victims. Non-killing acts of genocide—those
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19. People Have Choices
and acts all the time. Decisions are important, naturally some more so than others. The actions of ... the decisions and actions of people become much more important in troubling times. As is well known ... Hungary was an ally of Germany in World War II. When the Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy realized that ... attain power. They had a significant role in the killings. In all, more than 560,000 Hungarian Jews died
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20. Past Seminars
Nazism and the Holocaust, with a particular focus on the role of rescuers and bystanders. 2009 ... affected the lives of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims during the Holocaust. Using a wide variety of ... and responses of perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and victims to aspects of the genocide that ... government, the role of public opinion in the Holocaust in France, Jewish responses to the Holocaust, and
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21. Past Symposia
that could deepen our understanding of the dynamics shaping the roles of religious actors before and ... unprecedented view into the operations of Sobibor, showing the topography of the killing center in new and ... ’ wives, and local civilians. Bystanders and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South ... (2018) University of Alabama at Birmingham Although different in many ways, the history of
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22. Past Conferences and Workshops
and Truth Telling: Catholic Archives and Holocaust Memory (2021) This workshop addressed the roles of ... and motivations of the Church and its adherents, and the role of archival research in scholarship and ... communities in the region. This workshop examined this scholarship – which focuses on the role of the German ... local nationalists and collaborators – and placed it in the context of the role of the state as the key
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23. Documenting Life and Destruction
others) to survive, it also explores the role of children as bystanders and persecutors. Read more The ... This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD ... volumes that provide firsthand accounts of the lives of those who suffered through the Holocaust, those ... the understanding of the events in this crucial period. Volumes Documenting Life and
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24. Nazi Propaganda
. The Role of Film ... Films in particular played an important role in disseminating racial antisemitism, the superiority of ... . The Role of Newspapers Newspapers in Germany, above all ... study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic
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25. Simon-Skjodt Center Director Kikoler Addresses International Religious Freedom Summit
legislatures can play an important role in prevention. Two: Many of you are on the frontlines, you see the ... remember: what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander ... Director Naomi Kikoler at the International Religious Freedom Summit. On behalf of the United States ... Holocaust Memorial Museum, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, it is a deep honor to be able