Organisational Reasons for the Holocaust

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Notes

1. Giddens, Central Problems in Social Theory.

2. Rosenfeld, “The Controversy That Isn’t,” 253. E.g., Podewin, ed., Braunbuch; Frank, Dunkel Seele, feiges Maul.

3. Panitch and Albo, Politics of the Right, 68.

4. Bettelheim, The Informed Heart, 14; Aly, Warum die Deutschen?, cited in Browning, “How Envy of Jews Lay Behind It,” 1; Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners focuses on a historical-agency oriented approach, as Rosenfeld notes in “The Controversy That Isn’t,” 249; Hilberg’s Destruction of the European Jews.

5. Rosenfeld, “The Controversy That Isn’t,” 262.

6. Goldhagen, “‘Willing Executioners’/‘Ordinary Men’ Debate.”

7. Ibid., 7.

8. Cf. Browning, “‘Willing Executioners’/‘Ordinary Men’ Debate,” 15.

9. Goldhagen, “‘Willing Executioners’/‘Ordinary Men’ Debate,” 7.

10. Ibid., 8 and 12.

11. Browning, “‘Willing Executioners’/‘Ordinary Men’ Debate,” 15.

12. Haffner, Failure of a Revolution.

13. E.g., Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect.

14. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust.

15. Rosenfeld, “The Controversy That Isn’t,” 256.

16. Klikauer, “Hitler’s Philosophers/Believe and Destroy,” and “Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt.”

17. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust.

18. Milgram, Obedience to Authority; Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect.

19. Etchezahar and Brussino, “Psychological Perspective,” 510.

20. Browning, “‘Willing Executioners’/‘Ordinary Men’ Debate,” 23.

21. Cf. Mann, Der Untertan; Blass, “Man Who Shocked the World”; Klikauer, “Milgram and Obedience.”

22. Cited in Shostak, “Holocaust: Telling and Retelling,” 351.