Citation

Glass JM. Polit. Psychol. 1997; 18(1): 129-145.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Society of Political Psychology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/0162-895X.00049

PMID

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Abstract

This essay takes issue with what is known as the "indifference" hypothesis regarding the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The Germans' fear of typhus, their perception of the Jew as poisonous, biological matter, "life unworthy of life," created a group state of mind in which many individual Germans, particularly those in the professions, enthusiastically participated in the logistics, machinery, ideology and legitimation of mass murder.

Language: en