Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust KillersGuenter Lewy
“We must look into the abyss to see beyond it,” psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton once stated, after dedicating decades to explaining why perpetrators of atrocities, massacres, and genocide did what they did. In this spirit, historians, sociologists, and, not least, psychologists have inquired into the...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 485-487 |
Review of: | Perpetrators (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Kühne, Thomas)
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Summary: | “We must look into the abyss to see beyond it,” psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton once stated, after dedicating decades to explaining why perpetrators of atrocities, massacres, and genocide did what they did. In this spirit, historians, sociologists, and, not least, psychologists have inquired into the actions, mindsets, and motivations of Holocaust perpetrators and published hundreds if not thousands of books and innumerous articles. Guenter Lewy’s new book synthesizes the most important in masterly fashion. |
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ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy047 |