Introduction: probing the limits of categorization / Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs -- Part 1. Approaches -- Bystanders: catchall concept, alluring alibi, or crucial clue? / Mary Fulbrook -- Raul Hilberg and his 'discovery' of the bystander / Rene Schlott -- Bystanders as visual subjects: onlookers, spectators, observers, and gawkers in occupied Poland / Roma Sendyka -- 'I am not, what I am': a typological approach to individual (In)action in the Holocaust / Timothy Williams -- The many shades of bystanding: on social dilemmas and passive participation / Froukje Demant -- The Dutch bystander as non-Jew and implicated subject / Remco Ensel and Evelien Gans -- Part II. History -- Photographing bystanders / Christoph Kreutzmuller -- The imperitive to act: Jews, neighbors, and the dynamics of persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 / Christina Morina -- Martin Heidegger's Nazi conscience / Adam Knowleds -- Natura abhorret vacuum: Polish 'bystanders' and the implementation of the 'final solution' / Jan Grabowski -- Defient Danes and indifferent Dutch? popular convictions and deportation rates in the Netherlands and Denmark, 1940-45 / Bart van der Boom -- The notions of social reactivity: the French case, 1942-1944 / Jacques Semelin -- Part III. Memory -- Ordinary, ignorant, and noninvolved? The figure of the bystander in Dutch research and controversy / Krijn Thijs -- Hidden in plain view: remembering and forgetting the bystanders of the Holocaust on (West) German television / Wulf Kansteiner -- Stand by your man: (self-)representations of SS wives after 1945 / Susanne C. Knittel -- 'Bystanders' in exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Susan Bachrach -- Epilogue I: a brief plea for the historicization of the bystander / Norbert Frei -- Epilogue II: saving the bystander / Ido de Haan.
Summary:
"Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust--perpetrators, victims, and bystanders--it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint. Described by Hilberg as those who were "once a part of this history," bystanders present unique challenges for those seeking to understand the decisions, attitudes, and self-understanding of historical actors who were neither obviously the instigators nor the targets of Nazi crimes. Combining historiographical, conceptual, and empirical perspectives on the bystander, the case studies in this book provide powerful insights into the complex social processes that accompany state-sponsored genocidal violence" --Provided by publisher.
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