New release: The citizen as perpetrator: Kurt Blanke and aryanization in France, 1940-1944. By Martin Jungius and Wolfgang Seibel.
12. March 2009
In: Holocaust and genocide studies, 22,3 (2008), 441-474.
The question of how “ordinary men” became killers has long exercised the scholarly imagination, but much recent scholarship has focused on mass killing in the “East.” The present study returns our gaze to Western Europe to ask how a middle-class professional with little earlier antisemitic animus could turn into a “desk perpetrator” who worked conscientiously to destroy the Jews' livelihood and thereby contributed to the realization of the “Final Solution.” (Abstract)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel is member of the executive board of the Center of Excellence. His research projects are (amongst others) Precarious Organizations“, „Failing States and Dark Networks“ and „Transcultural administrations in modern protectorates“.
Dr. Martin Jungius published recently: Der verwaltete Raub. Die „Arisierung“ der Wirtschaft in Frankreich in den Jahren 1940 bis 1944. Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2008.