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Sociology of the Holocaust

Sociology of the Holocaust . Robert Fine 2009 Some early questions. What’s in a name? . On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil . What’s new? . On industrialised murder. What’s singular? .

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Sociology of the Holocaust

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  1. Sociology of the Holocaust • Robert Fine 2009 • Some early questions

  2. What’s in a name? On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil

  3. What’s new? • On industrialised murder

  4. What’s singular? • On total domination

  5. What’s wrong? • On punishing the perpetrators

  6. How could you do it? • On monstrous deeds and ordinary men

  7. Why the Jews? • On antisemitism

  8. Who decided? • On structure and agency

  9. Who resisted? • On the role of victims

  10. Who looked on? • Indifference, difference and the bystander • First they came for the communists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a communist.Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a socialist.Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a labor leader.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.Then they came for me, and there was no oneleft to speak out for me. • --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

  11. How does one remember? • On memoir, testimony and fiction

  12. What can you see? • On the role of museums

  13. What don’t you see ?

  14. What now? • On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial

  15. Jews as Perpetrators?

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