Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders—it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint. Described by Hilberg as those who were "once a part of this history," bystanders present unique challenges for those seeking to understand the decisions, attitudes, and self-understanding of historical actors who were neither obviously the instigators nor the targets of Nazi crimes. Combining historiographical, conceptual, and empirical perspectives on the bystander, the case studies in this book provide powerful insights into the complex social processes that accompany state-sponsored genocidal violence.

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Probing the Limits of Categorization
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Contents
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Introduction
Part I. Approaches
Chapter 1. Bystanders
Chapter 2. Raul Hilberg and His “Discovery” of the Bystander
Chapter 3. Bystanders as Visual Subjects
Chapter 4. “I am not, what I am”
Chapter 5. The Many Shades of Bystanding
Chapter 6. The Dutch Bystander as Non-Jew and Implicated Subject
Part II. History
Chapter 7. Photographing Bystanders
Chapter 8. The Imperative to Act
Chapter 9. Martin Heidegger’s Nazi Conscience
Chapter 10. Natura Abhorret Vacuum
Chapter 11. Defiant Danes and Indifferent Dutch?
Chapter 12. The Notion of Social Reactivity
Part III. Memory
Chapter 13. Ordinary, Ignorant, and Noninvolved?
Chapter 14. Hidden in Plain View
Chapter 15. Stand by Your Man
Chapter 16. “Bystanders” in Exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Epilogue I. A Brief Plea for the Historicization of the Bystander
Epilogue II. Saving the Bystander
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