{"id":36859,"date":"2023-08-22T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36859"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:31:12","slug":"perpetration-and-complicity-under-nazism-and-beyond-compromised-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36859","title":{"rendered":"Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond: Compromised Identities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch and Bastiaan Willems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond<\/em> analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on self-understandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and later \u2013 a topic that remains highly relevant today.<br><br>Using the notion of &#8216;compromised identities&#8217; to think about contentious questions relating to empathy and complicity, this inter-disciplinary collection addresses the complex relationships between people&#8217;s behaviours and self-understandings through and beyond periods of collective violence. Contributors explore the compromises that individuals, states and societies enter into both during and after such violence.<br><br>Case studies highlight patterns of complicity and involvement in perpetration, and analyse how people&#8217;s stories evolve under changing circumstances and through social interaction, using varying strategies of justification, denial and rationalisation. Each chapter also considers the ways in which contemporary responses and scholarly practices may be affected by engagement with perpetrator representations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Contributors<br>Acknowledgements<br><br>1 Introduction<br><em>Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan Willems<\/em><br><br><strong>Part I Theorizing Ambiguity, Compromise and Complexity<\/strong><br>2 &#8216;Compromised Identities?&#8217;, Ageing Perpetrators and Compromising Forgiveness <em>Stephanie Bird<\/em><br>3 Conformity, compliance, and complicity: &#8216;Ordinary People&#8217; and the Holocaust<br><em>Mary Fulbrook<\/em><br>4 Complicities, Re-presented: Literary Portrayals in Totalitarianism and Neoliberalism <em>Juliane Prade-Weiss<\/em><br>5 In Search of the Bystander: Some reflections on the &#8216;social turn&#8217; in Holocaust studies and its Ramifications<br><em>Christina Morina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part II Confrontations with Violence<\/strong><br>6 Studying East European Perpetrators: The Case of Belarus<br><em>Leonid Rein<\/em><br>7 Compromising roles: German actresses in German-occupied Minsk<br><em>Anne-Lise Bobeldijk<\/em><br>8 Gender and Transgressive Violence in Postwar Accounts<br><em>Stefanie Rauch<\/em><br>9 Israeli National Narratives, Complicity, and Activism: Noam Chayut&#8217;s <em>The Girl who Stole my Holocaust<\/em> and Breaking the Silence<br><em>Nina Fischer<\/em><br><br><strong>Part III Law, Complicity and Perpetration<\/strong><br>10 The Constitutive Role of Nazi Law: Constructing Complicity in the Third Reich<br><em>Simon Lavis<\/em><br>11 Public execution in your community: The summary courts of 1945 Germany<br><em>Bastiaan Willems<\/em><br>12 Excess and Normality: West German and Austrian Media and Nazi Crimes Trials from the 1960s to the 1980s<br><em>Christoph Thonfeld<\/em><br>13 Pinochet&#8217;s Accomplices: perpetration, complicity, and institutional culpability before the Chilean court<br><em>Francisco Bustos, Cath Collins, and Francisco Ugas<\/em><br><br><strong>Part IV Framing the Past<\/strong><br>14 Perpetrator Memory and the Fascist Exile in Argentina: A Case Study<br><em>Zolt\u00e1n K\u00e9kesi<\/em><br>15 Complicity versus Cooperation: Zygmunt Bauman&#8217;s <em>Modernity and the Holocaust<\/em> and Claude Lanzmann&#8217;s <em>Shoah<\/em> and its Outtakes<br><em>Sue Vice<\/em><br>16 Challenging the Museum Visitor? Complicity and Perpetration during and beyond the Second World War in Contemporary Museum Exhibitions<br><em>Stephan Jaeger<\/em><br>17 &#8216;Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazi Rule&#8217;<em>.<\/em> An Exhibition<br><em>Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan Willems<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Conclusion<br><em>Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan Willems<\/em><br><br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 13 Jul 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extent: 304<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/perpetration-and-complicity-under-nazism-and-beyond-9781350327788\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/perpetration-and-complicity-under-nazism-and-beyond-9781350327788\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perpetration.jpg?fit=568%2C852&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53321,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53321","url_meta":{"origin":36859,"position":0},"title":"Poziv na predavanje \u201cAgainst Neutrality: Palestine, Ethical Scholarship and Solidarity\u201d","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"14. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"We are pleased to announce that Stephanie Westbrook will be with us next week, both in Zagreb and Rijeka. 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