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    Introduction

    Philosopher and ethicist John K. Roth as well as Jonathan Glover reflected that thinkers in the early twentieth century like Martin Heidegger failed to condemn the Holocaust when they could have done so. This ...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    The Holocaust and the Ideal of Purity

    This chapter investigates how genocide makes use of the notion that the in-group can preserve itself only if it eliminates those it deems to be a threat to its purity. This devotion to ethnic or ideological pu...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    The Case of the Muselmänner: A Study in the Loss and Reclamation of Dignity

    Victims of genocidal violence like the Muselmänner test our notions of dignity. In practice it is not altogether clear if respect of dignity is deserved, earned, or to be granted. Here and previously I borrow ...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Postscript

    Why repeat today these moral issues? Genocide Watch identifies contemporary global hotspots, where the stages of genocide are happening today. Failing to speak out against genocide in its priming or peak phase...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Resistance and Neighborly Aid

    This chapter explores how individuals in the Holocaust become the victims of genocide and in what ways resistance has been mounted against the perpetrators of genocide. The charge that victims did not rise up ...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Ethical Gray Zones in Genocidal Killing Camps

    This chapter takes the readers inside the ghettos and concentration camps to consider the artificial conditions imposed upon victims. In these camps victims were in theory and practice denied a role in the eth...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Cry Genocide!

    The label “genocide” emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. After years of campaigning, Raphael Lemkin succeeded in gaining international recognition for the term “genocide.” The term identified ...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Denial of Rights as a Prelude to Entitlement

    Genocide is a denial of a fundamental right and that is the right of an individual to life. While the onset of mass murder may appear to happen swiftly in genocide, there may have been several preliminary step...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Self-Entitlement for the Chosen Few

    This chapter investigates how killing non-Aryans was justified from an individual viewpoint and before the international community. One’s ancestry can be understood as a matter of moral luck, but the Nazis saw...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Bystanders to Genocide

    This chapter examines the role of bystanders in genocide. To achieve their objectives perpetrators had to rely on bystanders to be neutral or supportive. Bystanders are not victims or perpetrators, but they ca...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Antisemitism is a Vicious Racism

    Antisemitism precedes the Holocaust, shapes the Holocaust, and outlives the Holocaust. Antisemitism provides a cultural and ethical underlayment for the stages of genocide identifiable in the Holocaust. Antise...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    Propaganda for Genocide

    Propaganda is a powerful tool for communication and for persuading a mass of persons who are willing to surrender a measure of autonomy to the propagandists. It has been used successfully to communicate inform...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)

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    The Case of the Aryan Jesus Dogma: Enlarging Entitlement through Propaganda

    In a national effort to promote antisemitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi Germany. Its leader, Walter Grundmann, was instrumental in the prom...

    Paul E. Wilson in The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust (2023)