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The twisted road to genocide: on the psychological development of evil during the Holocaust.

From: Social Research  |  Date: 6/22/1994  |  Author: Zukier, Henri

The Holocaust needs to be studied in terms of the psychological environment that allowed for the murder of millions of people by millions of other people. It cannot be explained as an aberration or the result of a few bad seeds. Doing so ignores the potential for a recurrence of genocide. The psychological evolution leading up to the Holocaust occurred in small incremental steps that could be duplicated in the future. Inadequate attempts to explain the psychological environment of the Holocaust ...

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