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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...