sociology of the holocaust
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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? . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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?
• On total domination
What’s wrong?
• On punishing the perpetrators
How could you do it?
• On monstrous deeds and ordinary men
Why the Jews?
• On antisemitism
Who decided?
• On structure and agency
Who resisted?
• On the role of victims
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.
How does one remember?
• On memoir, testimony and fiction
What can you see?
• On the role of museums
What don’t you see ?
What now?
• On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial
Jews as Perpetrators?