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Sociology of the Holocaust. Robert Fine 2009 Some early questions. What’s in a name?. On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil. What’s new?. On industrialised murder. What’s singular?.
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Sociology of the Holocaust • Robert Fine 2009 • Some early questions
What’s in a name? On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil
What’s new? • On industrialised murder
What’s singular? • On total domination
What’s wrong? • On punishing the perpetrators
How could you do it? • On monstrous deeds and ordinary men
Why the Jews? • On antisemitism
Who decided? • On structure and agency
Who resisted? • On the role of victims
Who looked on? • Indifference, difference and the bystander • First they came for the communists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a communist.Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a socialist.Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a labor leader.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.Then they came for me, and there was no oneleft to speak out for me. • --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.
How does one remember? • On memoir, testimony and fiction
What can you see? • On the role of museums
What now? • On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial