Guided by HANNAH ARENDT’s characterization of the Holocaust as “the banality of evil”, this paper summarizes the pertinent evidence attesting to the involvement of normal human beings in mass murder, and supplements it with an interpretation in terms of “identification with the victim”. Identifying moral indifference among German elites as the key factor, the origins of the Holocaust are traced to value dissensus, domination by virtue of interest constellation, elite-destratification, loss of societal identity, and de-socialization of personal identity.
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Publicly AvailableThe Holocaust – Anomic Hobbesian “State of Nature”May 20, 2016
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Publicly AvailableThe Corporate Structure of the Economy and its Effects on IncomeMay 20, 2016
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Publicly AvailableDiskussion. Zur Revision der SozialraumanalyseMay 20, 2016
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Publicly AvailableDiskussion. Zur Revision der SozialraumanalyseMay 20, 2016
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Publicly AvailableDiskussion. Politik und SozialexperimentMay 20, 2016
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Publicly AvailableDiskussion. Final gebundene PolitikMay 20, 2016