Microcosms of the Holocaust: Exploring New Venues into Small-Scale Research of the Holocaust

The massive scale of the Nazi-persecution of Jews in Europe, resulting in the death of almost six million people, makes it easy to forget that the Holocaust was also an intimate history, taking place around the corner, in the street, on the hallway. As much as it is a story of industrial killing in...

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Published in:Journal of genocide research 2019-07, Vol.21 (3), p.335-341
Main Authors: von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, Geraldien, Galimi, Valeria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Ethnonationalism
Extremism
Genocide
Holocaust
Jewish people
Killing
Mania
Oppression
Police
Power
Religious persecution
State power
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Summary:The massive scale of the Nazi-persecution of Jews in Europe, resulting in the death of almost six million people, makes it easy to forget that the Holocaust was also an intimate history, taking place around the corner, in the street, on the hallway. As much as it is a story of industrial killing in Auschwitz, of Nazi racial mania, of the power of the state apparatus and its repressive institutions of police and military, of the fanaticism of ethnonationalism and of institutional collaboration in the occupied countries of Europe, it is the story of more mundane civilians and their agency during genocide, of “ordinary” Jewish-Gentile relations and how they developed under the immense pressure of Nazi-rule.
ISSN:1462-3528
1469-9494
DOI:10.1080/14623528.2019.1631517