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

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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 Presentation

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Sociology of the Holocaust

• Robert Fine 2009

• Some early questions

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What’s in a name?

On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity /

genocide / radical evil

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What’s new?

• On industrialised murder

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What’s singular?

• On total domination

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What’s wrong?

• On punishing the perpetrators

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How could you do it?

• On monstrous deeds and ordinary men

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Why the Jews?

• On antisemitism

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Who decided?

• On structure and agency

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Who resisted?

• On the role of victims

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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.

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How does one remember?

• On memoir, testimony and fiction

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What can you see?

• On the role of museums

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What don’t you see ?

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What now?

• On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial

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Jews as Perpetrators?