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Ordinary organizations : why normal men carried out the Holocaust /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kühl, Stefan (Author)
Other Authors: Spengler, Jessica (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Sociological aspects.
Torture > Sociological aspects.
Social psychology.
Germans > Psychology > History > 20th century.
Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Psychological aspects.
(lcsh)Germans > Psychology > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond "ordinary men" and "ordinary Germans"
  • Identification with the goal
  • Coercion
  • Comradeship
  • Money
  • The attractiveness of activities
  • The generalization of motives
  • From killers to perpetrators
  • The normality and abnormality of organizations.