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Mark Roseman, “Genocide in View: Holocaust Perpetrators in the Eyes of Others”
Amistad Conference Room (SPN2)
“Genocide in View: Holocaust Perpetrators in the Eyes of Others”
This lecture introduces an ongoing research project. It explores the vantage points of different groups who encountered German perpetrators of the Holocaust – among them their victims, their families, the courts, the postwar press, historians and more. It shows how these different “constituencies” struggled to reconcile what they were seeing with their vision of Germany, their understanding of humanity, and/or their other knowledge of the individuals concerned – and it explores the ways in which they responded to the challenge of making sense of the perpetrators.