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Reckonings

Mary Fulbrook

How did so many people come to take part in Nazi persecution, and how did victims and perpetrators live with that past afterward?

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Author
Mary Fulbrook

Why read it

  • You will understand how a system willed by a few can run on the conformity of many
  • You will learn to look beyond a single famous symbol and see the wider pattern of who took part
  • You will see why outward behavior under pressure does not always show what people believed

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants to understand how neighbors became participants
  • Someone visiting memorial sites who wants fuller context
  • A manager or citizen asking how ordinary people end up going along

Contents

  1. Reckonings
  2. Preface
  3. Reckonings
  4. The Significance of the Nazi Past
  5. The Continuing Presence of the Nazi Past
  6. Exploring the Legacies of Nazi Persecution
  7. Reckonings
  8. Part I
  9. Chasms: Patterns of Persecution
  10. The Explosion of State-Sponsored Violence
  11. Auschwitz as the Epitome of Evil
  12. State Terror
  13. Peacetime Persecution
  14. Toward a “National Community”
  15. The Parting of the Ways: Expulsion and Emigration
  16. Institutionalized Murder
  17. “Life Unworthy of Living”
  18. Vulnerable Victims and Professional Perpetrators
  19. The Division of Labor and Diffusion of Guilt
  20. Microcosms of Violence
  21. Polish Prisms
  22. The Expansion of the Empire of Violence: Poland
  23. Concentrating Suffering: Ghettoization in Łódź
  24. The Destruction of a Community: Mielec
  25. Life and Death in the Heinkel Works
  26. The Transformation of the Territory
  27. Endpoints
  28. The Machinery of Extermination
  29. Atrocities in the Open
  30. The Auschwitz Complex
  31. The Killing Sites of Poland
  32. Extermination through Work: Productivity and Profiteering
  33. The Many Roads to Murder
  34. Defining Experiences
  35. Diversity and Shared Experiences
  36. Ruptures: Humiliation and Dehumanization
  37. Resisting Dehumanization
  38. Communities of the Persecuted
  39. Silence and Communication
  40. The Continuation of Parallel Worlds
  41. Early Survivor Accounts
  42. Shaping the Past
  43. Tangled Friendships and Torn Bonds
  44. Part II
  45. Confrontations: Landscapes of the Law
  46. Transitional Justice
  47. Transformations
  48. “Victors’ Justice”: The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal
  49. Allied Successor Trials
  50. Elite Evasions and New Narratives
  51. Judging Their Own
  52. Selective Justice in the Successor States
  53. Crimes Close to Home: Trials under Allied Occupation
  54. Politicization and Partial Prosecution: East Germany
  55. Sympathies, Subjectivities, and the Law: West Germany
  56. Abstaining from Justice: Austria
  57. From Euthanasia to Genocide
  58. Early Euthanasia Trials
  59. Changing Perspectives
  60. Shifts in Focus

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