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Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network
Björn Krondorfer, review of Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel, eds. "Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics" (2018)2019 •
"A remarkable and daring piece of scholarship is offered by Tomasz Frydel, who reassesses the role of ordinary Poles during the Holocaust. He enters this thorny issue through the infamous Judenjagd, the hunting and killing of fugitive Jews. Germans conducted these lethal raids themselves but also coerced Polish peasant society into these hunts. Rather than assuming that these Polish perpetrators were chiefly motivated by antisemitism, Frydel carefully reconstructs the context within which such co-optation was possible. Those hunts, Frydel explains, did not only target Jews but were conducted against a number of groups: escaped Soviet POWs, partisans, German army deserters, Roma, and also fellow Polish villagers who wanted to evade German forced labor. German occupation forces created constant fear through a tightly woven surveillance and enforcement net, with modest incentives but draconian punishment, and by making Polish auxiliary forces in the countryside responsible for compliance with German orders. Frydel also mentions individuals who acted as Nazi informers for purely personal gains, and this included some Polish-Jewish informers. “The complex reality examined here cannot be poured into the mold of antisemitism alone,” Frydel concludes, but must be considered within a “system of pressures” that “informed the actions of the perpetrators."
In 1961, Raul Hilberg argued that “[those who carried out the Holocaust] ‘were not different in their moral makeup from the rest of the population. The German perpetrator was not a special kind of German.’ Rather, the perpetrators represented ‘a remarkable cross-section of the German population.’” If those who carried out the horror of the Holocaust were no different than the rest of the Germans, why did they commit such atrocities? Over the years since Hilberg, discussion about perpetrators has increased and multiple different theories have been presented as to why regular, law abiding citizens would carry out mass killings against a helpless group of people. This paper will take a look at those different theories and their ability to fully explain the phenomena, as well as offering a multifaceted explanation.
2010 AGCC&COBAWU, Afghanistan Report
2010 - Theory of Violence - summarized version - Andreu Ginestet2010 •
2010 Executive Summary AGCC is an international and interdisciplinary group around Andrés Ginestet, attempting to help reduce violence in the world. Many other groups of most serious peoples - governmental or non-governmental, public and/or private, etc. are active in that field, which, in turn, is being studied inside many connected fields/disciplines in academia. Systematic programmatic recommendations are being analyzed, set up and followed; and the outcomes are being monitored and evaluated. True progress seems to be marginal at best. The difference AGCC thinks, it can make, comes from its four-prong approach: First, there is recognition of the systemic nature of violence (and historically strong auto-regressivity) reproducing similar behavioral patterns inside humankind. This leads to our understanding that global solutions are required. Second, there is recognition of the need for very broad inter-, trans-, and crossdisciplinary approaches in addressing the problem of violence. This comes combined with the strong belief we share that such an approach may yield access to better knowledge about, and to a more thorough understanding of the multitude of factors affecting systemic reproduction of violent behaviors worldwide."
Executive Summary AGCC is an international and interdisciplinary group around Andrés Ginestet, attempting to help reduce violence in the world. Many other groups of most serious peoples-governmental or non-governmental, public and/or private, etc. are active in that field, which, in turn, is being studied inside many connected fields/disciplines in academia. Systematic programmatic recommendations are being analyzed, set up and followed; and the outcomes are being monitored and evaluated.
From the Euthanasia Programme to the wholesale and systematic murder of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews at KZ Auschwitz in 1944, this presentation aims to take a clinical look at the development and deployment of the mechanisms that made murder on such a colossal sale possible. Beginning with an overview of Auschwitz and its complex roles in the Nazi death economy it moves to the lived experience of Hungary's Jews as they fell under the shadow of Nazi German oppression.
Due to violence’s cross-cultural and trans-historical importance in human societies and its contemporary significance as a locus of social fears, it has unsurprisingly been a key topic in research on the influence of innate biological factors on human psychology and behaviour. At the same time, especially since the 1980s, historians of crime have been focusing ever more attention on the topic of small-scale, ‘everyday’ violence, taking into account both its quantitative social history (e.g., analysing homicide and assault rates) and qualitative cultural history (e.g., reconstructing attitudes toward violence). There are many points at which these two strands of inquiry – natural science and socio-cultural history – might usefully contribute to a unified analysis. However, there have so far been few efforts to consider what a natural science perspective on violence (in particular that offered by ‘evolutionary psychology’ would actually mean for historical understanding of a topic such as violence. The work that has been done in this direction has been promising, but has also revealed certain difficulties in integrating approaches. Finally, some historians have sought to position history (particularly cultural history) as a site of resistance to ‘biological’ analyses of behaviour. In this paper, I will discuss some key interdisciplinary efforts made so far and argue that there are useful ways that evolutionary psychology can assist our understanding of violence within historical time frames.
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