Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond

Stephanie Bird is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK. She is the author of Women Writers and National Identity (2003) and Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction (1998).Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London, UK. She is the author of Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018, winner of the Wolfson History Prize) and A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012, winner of the Fraenkel Prize), amongst others. Stefanie Rauch is Research Fellow at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University College London, UK. She is the author of Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: A British Case Study (2020).Bastiaan Willems is Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern European History at University College London, UK. He is the author of Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 (2021) and A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars (Bloomsbury, 2022).

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgements1 Introduction Stephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan WillemsPart I Theorizing Ambiguity, Compromise and Complexity2 ‘Compromised Identities?’, Ageing Perpetrators and Compromising Forgiveness Stephanie Bird3 Conformity, compliance, and complicity: ‘Ordinary People’ and the Holocaust Mary Fulbrook4 Complicities, Re-presented: Literary Portrayals in Totalitarianism and Neoliberalism Juliane Prade-Weiss5 In Search of the Bystander: Some reflections on the ‘social turn’ in Holocaust studies and its Ramifications Christina MorinaPart II Confrontations with Violence6 Studying East European Perpetrators: The Case of BelarusLeonid Rein7 Compromising roles: German actresses in German-occupied MinskAnne-Lise Bobeldijk8 Gender and Transgressive Violence in Postwar AccountsStefanie Rauch9 Israeli National Narratives, Complicity, and Activism: Noam Chayut’s The Girl who Stole my Holocaust and Breaking the SilenceNina FischerPart III Law, Complicity and Perpetration10 The Constitutive Role of Nazi Law: Constructing Complicity in the Third ReichSimon Lavis11 Public execution in your community: The summary courts of 1945 GermanyBastiaan Willems12 Excess and Normality: West German and Austrian Media and Nazi Crimes Trials from the 1960s to the 1980sChristoph Thonfeld13 Pinochet’s Accomplices: perpetration, complicity, and institutional culpability before the Chilean courtFrancisco Bustos, Cath Collins, and Francisco UgasPart IV Framing the Past14 Perpetrator Memory and the Fascist Exile in Argentina: A Case StudyZoltán Kékesi15 Complicity versus Cooperation: Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its OuttakesSue Vice16 Challenging the Museum Visitor? Complicity and Perpetration during and beyond the Second World War in Contemporary Museum ExhibitionsStephan Jaeger17 ‘Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazi Rule’. An ExhibitionStephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan Willems 18 ConclusionStephanie Bird, Mary Fulbrook, Stefanie Rauch, and Bastiaan WillemsIndex