The “Mindless Years”?: A Reconsideration of the Psychological Dimensions of the Holocaust, 1938–1945

This article examines the frayed relationship between psychology and Holocaust history and its consequences for scholarship, arguing the need for a reconciliation between the fields. The causes for the split are traced in part to a reductionist approach to methodological, conceptual, and moral issue...

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Main Author: Zukier, Henri (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 1997
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-212
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