'Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazi Rule'

Bird, Stephanie; Fulbrook, Mary; Rauch, Stefanie und Willems, Bastiaan (2023): 'Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazi Rule'. An Exhibition. In: Fulbrook, Mary; Willems, Bastiaan; Bird, Stephanie und Rauch, Stefanie (eds.) : Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond : Compromised Identities? London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 250-269

Abstract

In Holocaust education, musealization and commemoration, an (understandable) focus on victim voices and the top echelons of power and repression predominates. The broad spectrum of perpetrators, beneficiaries and facilitators of persecution remain underrepresented, as does the wider social context. A 2016 survey by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education established a serious lack of knowledge and understanding of these issues among a majority of young people in the UK. Although the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust wrote that bystanders ‘enabled the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides’, their voices were largely missing from the Trust’s 2016 Holocaust Memorial Day’s ‘Don’t Stand By’ materials and ceremonies. Moreover, the focus often presupposes a degree of individual choice that was not available to many people at the time. The relative absence of ‘perpetrator perspectives’ adversely affects teaching and public understanding of the conditions under which genocide was possible and means of addressing its legacies....

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Neuere und Neueste Geschichte > Contemporary History
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy; 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology; 900 History and geography > 940 History of Europe
• ISBN: 978-1-3503-2781-8 ; 978-1-3503-2778-8 ; 978-1-3503-2777-1
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Language: English