Washington History Seminar | Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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End: January 29, 2024
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Monday, January 29, 4 p.m. ET
“Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust”
 
Join Mary Fulbrook (Univ. Coll. London) and Natalia Aleksiun (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville) for a discussion on Dr. Fulbrook's new book Bystander Society. Drawing on personal accounts of experiences in the Third Reich and in wartime Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, Bystander Society explores the creation of the "bystander society” in which the majority of Germans were either unable to act or developed growing indifference to the fate of those deemed "non-Aryan"―mainly Jews. Dr. Fulbrook argues that the circumstances that created this bystander society are historically produced, and that the idea that many Germans were innocent bystanders was largely a postwar myth.