#  Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 1, 2023** 

 12:05PM - 12:05PM EDT 

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 **Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall**  



 

 



 

 Speaker: [Mary Fulbrook](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/people/mary-fulbrook)

 In this seminar, Mary Fulbrook will discuss her new book *[Bystander Society ](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bystander-society-9780197691717?cc=us&lang=en&)*(Oxford University Press, 2023) with CES Resident Faculty David Spreen. Fulbrook explores the ways ordinary Germans became increasingly compliant with the Nazi regime, such that a majority were eventually able to facilitate, benefit from, or turn a blind eye to deportations and mass murder. Tracing selected personal stories through peace and war, *Bystander Society* helps readers understand the growth of passivity in the peacetime years, illuminates how genocide developed in the Baltic states and Poland during wartime, and highlights the conditions under which only a few individuals were able to engage in the risks entailed by refusal, rescue, or resistance.



 

 



 

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