#  CES: A Nation of ‘Bystanders’? A Topography of Complicity and Capitulation in Nazi Germany and Beyond 

 



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 **September 29, 2016** 

 04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland St. Cambridge**  



 

 



 

This presentation explores the significance of personal and social relationships for the development of persecution in the Third Reich, as well as reverberations in postwar societies, using a wide range of ego-documents and other sources. Exploring a range of topics that are usually held to be the preserve of ‘the history of everyday life’ - including intimacy, family relationships, friendships, privacy and social life - the paper develops a theory of the 'social self’ and the role of personal relationships in the genesis of genocide. It concludes by exploring the long-term and wider significance of willing or unwilling capitulation to new norms, and questions around complicity, collusion, and the diffuse burden of guilt across generations.[Mary Fulbrook](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/.../staff/mary-fulbrook) Dean, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences; Professor of German History and Director, UCL European Institute, University College LondonSponsors: [Contemporary Europe Study Group](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/studygroups/contemporary-europe/)Contact: Devin Pendas, <devin.pendas.1@bc.edu>

 

 



 

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