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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 : Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Nestar.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Volume 2-The "Twisted Road" to Auschwitz
  • Formal Rationality
  • The Invention of the Obedience Studies
  • Milgram's Reliance on Formally Rational Techniques of Organization
  • Moving to a New Milgram-Holocaust Linkage
  • References
  • Chapter 2 The Nazi Regime-Ideology, Ascendancy, and Consensus
  • The Origins of Nazi Ideology and Their Rise to Power
  • The Change from Conventional Positive to Radical Negative Eugenics
  • The Nazi Decent into World War Two
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3 World War Two and Nazi Forays into the Killing of Civilians
  • The "Twisted Road" to "Realizing the Unthinkable"
  • Shooting
  • Starvation
  • Gassing
  • The Transformation of Himmler and Heydrich
  • Hitler and the Invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets-Top-Down Forces
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • Finally the SS-Reichsführer "Understands"
  • Pilot Studies in Killing Mid-to-Late 1941
  • The Holocaust by Bullets Continues
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets-Bottom-Up Forces
  • The First Executions
  • The Bureaucratized Mass Shooting Process: Babi Yar
  • The Insertion of "[E]nd [S]pecial [U]nits"
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6 The Rise of Operation Reinhard
  • New Opportunities
  • The Origins of the First Extermination Camp: Chełmno
  • Centralization of the Extermination Process: The Wannsee Conference
  • Chełmno's Extermination Process: A Deadly Game of Deception
  • The Emergence of Operation Reinhard
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7 The Solution to the Jewish Question-Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • Humble Beginnings
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau: Formal Rationality and the Most Efficient Means to the End
  • Conclusion.
  • References
  • Chapter 8 The Nazi's Pursuit for a "Humane" Method of Killing
  • No Anticipation of Death
  • Touching, Seeing, or Hearing
  • A Peaceful and Gentle Death
  • Instantaneous Death
  • The Search for the Most Efficient, Profitable, and Humane Method of Killing (Without Killing)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Conclusion-The Milgram-Holocaust Linkage and Beyond
  • References
  • Bibliography: Volume 2
  • Index.

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