The Social Dynamics of Genocide : Social Psychology and Compliance in Himmler’s Murder Squads

The mobile paramilitary units known as Einsatzgruppen murdered between one and two million Soviet Jewish and non-Jewish civilians under Nazi occupation. Contemporary and postwar documentation reveals that the units lumped together members of Germany’s various party and state security organizations, who, despite the common image of the Nazi “murder machine,” did not always work in complete collaboration. The article follows Einsatzkommando 12, a subunit of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated executions in the southern regions of present-day Ukraine and Russia.

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Never again : Lessons of genocide in survivor testimonies from the Holocaust, Nanjing massacre and Rwandan genocide

In the aftermath of traumatic events, individuals and groups seek to make sense of these experiences. ‘Never again’ is often considered the primary lesson of genocide. Yet, people may understand this lesson in different ways, and other lessons may also be relevant. The present paper reports a qualitative content analysis of publicly available testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide and the Nanjing Massacre (N = 200), examining the lessons of genocide that these survivors shared publicly.

 

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Not Just a Man’s War : Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

In September 1931, Japan began a brutal occupation of Manchuria. In July 1937, China and Japan entered a full-scale war that ended with Japan’s defeat in 1945. The War of Resistance became the Chinese experience of the Second World War. Yet women scarcely get a mention in most accounts of the fourteen-year conflict.

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Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory : A research on the location of commemorative monuments

This research presents three archival studies conducted on three different databases, on the location of memorials. Study 1 compares French monuments dedicated to the Wars of 1870–1871 (defeat) and 1914–1918 (victory). We note a proportionally greater presence in public spaces of monuments dedicated to the 1914–1918 War. Study 2 concerns the memorials to political repression in the Russian Federation, erected before and after 1991 (date of promulgation of a victim rehabilitation law). Results show an increase of presence of monuments in the public space starting from 1991.

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Jewish Child Survivors in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

The last two decades have been marked by a steadily increasing interest in the history of children during and in the aftermath of the Second World War; this might be described as the children's turn in Holocaust studies. Today, we have a wide range of case studies of Jewish children under Nazi occupation in both western and eastern Europe, studies of children in concentration camps, and child survivors' early post-war lives.

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The Impact of a Study Trip to Auschwitz : Place-based Learning for Bioethics Education and Professional Identity Formation

There are increasing calls for coverage of medicine during the Holocaust in medical school curricula. This article describes outcomes from a Holocaust and medicine educational program featuring a study trip to Poland, which focused on physician complicity during the Holocaust, as well as moral courage in health professionals who demonstrated various forms of resistance in the ghettos and concentration camps.

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The importance of the feeling of isolation and loneliness among French Holocaust survivors after the 7 October terrorist attack

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Transmission of Trauma and Resilience in Multigenerational Families of Holocaust Survivors : Two Case Studies

This study explored the relevance of the Holocaust in the lives of Australian adults who grew up with at least one parent and grandparent who were Holocaust survivors. Two individual cases are highlighted with data analysed using a Phenomenological Interpretative Approach. Two themes are discussed: the relevance of the Holocaust in participants’ life and the familial communication patterns about the Holocaust.

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Challenging the Master Narrative of Holocaust Victimhood : Examining the Holocaust Through a Gendered Lens

Women are severely unrepresented in the master narrative that has come to define what it means to be a Holocaust victim. Although men and women were subjected to different forms of victimization, women’s unique experiences of suffering have been marginalized and subsumed within the male-dominated master narrative. Examining the Holocaust through a gendered lens challenges this existing narrative of Holocaust victimhood.

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Living with grief and thriving after loss : a qualitative study of Chinese parents whose only child has died

Introduction: Chinese bereaved parents over the age of 49 who have lost their only child are known as shidu parents. This study aimed to explore their symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) and post-traumatic growth (PTG).

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