Chapter 2 Raul Hilberg and His “Discovery” of the Bystander

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Probing the Limits of Categorization 1
5. Part I Approaches
6. Chapter 1 Bystanders: Catchall Concept, Alluring Alibi, or Crucial Clue? 15
7. Chapter 2 Raul Hilberg and His “Discovery” of the Bystander 36
8. Chapter 3 Bystanders as Visual Subjects: Onlookers, Spectators, Observers, and Gawkers in Occupied Poland 52
9. Chapter 4 “I am not, what I am” A Typological Approach to Individual (In)action in the Holocaust 72
10. Chapter 5 The Many Shades of Bystanding: On Social Dilemmas and Passive Participation 90
11. Chapter 6 The Dutch Bystander as Non-Jew and Implicated Subject 107
12. Part II History
13. Chapter 7 Photographing Bystanders 131
14. Chapter 8 The Imperative to Act: Jews, Neighbors, and the Dynamics of Persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 148
15. Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger’s Nazi Conscience 168
16. Chapter 10 Natura Abhorret Vacuum: Polish “Bystanders” and the Implementation of the “Final Solution” 187
17. Chapter 11 Defiant Danes and Indifferent Dutch? Popular Convictions and Deportation Rates in the Netherlands and Denmark, 1940–1945 206
18. Chapter 12 The Notion of Social Reactivity: The French Case, 1942–1944 224
19. Part III Memory
20. Chapter 13 Ordinary, Ignorant, and Noninvolved? The Figure of the Bystander in Dutch Research and Controversy 247
21. Chapter 14 Hidden in Plain View: Remembering and Forgetting the Bystanders of the Holocaust on (West) German Television 266
22. Chapter 15 Stand by Your Man (Self-)Representations of SS Wives after 1945 291
23. Chapter 16 “Bystanders” in Exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 309
24. Epilogue I A Brief Plea for the Historicization of the Bystander 336
25. Epilogue II Saving the Bystander 343
26. Index 355