Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland, Catherine Epstein (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010), 320 pp., cloth 45.00
How do genocidal situations arise, and why do some men incite others to commit mass murder? In Model Nazi, Catherine Epstein explores these questions through a biographical investigation of one of the most under-studied functionaries in the Third Reich: the Gauleiter of the Warthegau, Arthur Greiser...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 452-454 |
| Review of: | Model Nazi (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Faulkner, L. N.)
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| Summary: | How do genocidal situations arise, and why do some men incite others to commit mass murder? In Model Nazi, Catherine Epstein explores these questions through a biographical investigation of one of the most under-studied functionaries in the Third Reich: the Gauleiter of the Warthegau, Arthur Greiser. Epstein dismisses the argument that motivation for murder is situational, insisting instead that in order to understand “how and why genocidal situations arise in the first place” we must investigate the individuals involved. This in turn allows scholars to assign “responsibility for heinous crimes … to individuals, not just to impersonal situations” (p. 5). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr042 |