Genocidal Policies Research Articles

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

The Policies Of Genocide: Jews And Soviet Prisoners Of War In Nazi Germany. Edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Introduction by Wolfgang J. Mommsen. London, Boston, and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, for the German Historical Institute, 1986. xiii, 172 pp. Maps. $22.95, cloth. $9.95, paper.

The Policies Of Genocide: Jews And Soviet Prisoners Of War In Nazi Germany. Edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Introduction by Wolfgang J. Mommsen. London, Boston, and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, for the German Historical Institute, 1986. xiii, 172 pp. Maps. $22.95, cloth. $9.95, paper.

BOOK REVIEWS

Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS: ANNOUNCEMENT Get access Holocaust and Genocide studies are cordially invited to contact the Book Review Editor, Professor John K. Roth, Pitzer Hall, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, U.S.A.The Eastern Front, 1941–45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare, Omer Bartov (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 214 pp., n.p. The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Pnsoners of War in Nazi Germany, ed. Gerhard Hirschfeld for the German Historical Institute (London: Allen & Unwin, 1986), 172 pp., n.p. Christopher R Browning Christopher R Browning Pacific Lutheran University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 321–323, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.2.321 Published: 01 February 1987

Genocide Fears in a Rural Black Community

Since the urban unrest of the mid-1960s, controversy has developed among Blacks about the perception of birth control programs as a thinly disguised scheme to commit genocide against people of African origin in the United States and elsewhere (Weisbord, 1973). Some scholarly critiques and antibirth-control activities of Afro-Americans and other Third World people reflect a degree of concern with this issue. St. Clair Drake (Yette, 1971: 296) observed that many black militants are convinced that they would be 'ripped off' first during a period of servere repression, and that a policy of genocide would then be carried out against the entire Black

Violence without Moral Restraint: Reflections on the Dehumanization of Victims and Victimizers

The paper identifies a class of violent acts that can best be described as sanctioned massacres. The special features of sanctioned massacres are that they occur in the context of a genocidal policy, and that they are directed at groups that have not themselves threatened or engaged in hostile actions against the perpetrators of the violence. The psychological environment in which such massacres occur lacks the conditions normally perceived as providing some degree of moral justification for violence. In searching for a psychological explanation of mass violence under these conditions, it is instructive to focus on factors reducing the strength of restraining forces against violence. Three interrelated processes are discussed in detail: (a) processes of authorization, which define the situation as one in which standard moral principles do not apply and the individual is absolved of responsibility to make personal moral choices; (b) processes of routinization, which so organize the action that there is no opportunity for raising moral questions and making moral decisions; and (c) processes of dehumanization which deprive both victim and victimizer of identity and community. The paper concludes with suggestions for corrective efforts that might help to prevent sanctioned massacres by counteracting the systemic and attitudinal supports for the processes described.