Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 : : Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust.

• Author: Russell, Nestar.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)

Table of Contents

Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Volume 2-The "Twisted Road" to Auschwitz -- Formal Rationality -- The Invention of the Obedience Studies -- Milgram's Reliance on Formally Rational Techniques of Organization -- Moving to a New Milgram-Holocaust Linkage -- References -- Chapter 2 The Nazi Regime-Ideology, Ascendancy, and Consensus -- The Origins of Nazi Ideology and Their Rise to Power -- The Change from Conventional Positive to Radical Negative Eugenics -- The Nazi Decent into World War Two -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 World War Two and Nazi Forays into the Killing of Civilians -- The "Twisted Road" to "Realizing the Unthinkable" -- Shooting -- Starvation -- Gassing -- The Transformation of Himmler and Heydrich -- Hitler and the Invasion of the Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets-Top-Down Forces -- Operation Barbarossa -- Finally the SS-Reichsführer "Understands" -- Pilot Studies in Killing Mid-to-Late 1941 -- The Holocaust by Bullets Continues -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets-Bottom-Up Forces -- The First Executions -- The Bureaucratized Mass Shooting Process: Babi Yar -- The Insertion of "[E]nd [S]pecial [U]nits" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 The Rise of Operation Reinhard -- New Opportunities -- The Origins of the First Extermination Camp: Chełmno -- Centralization of the Extermination Process: The Wannsee Conference -- Chełmno's Extermination Process: A Deadly Game of Deception -- The Emergence of Operation Reinhard -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 The Solution to the Jewish Question-Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Humble Beginnings -- Auschwitz-Birkenau: Formal Rationality and the Most Efficient Means to the End -- Conclusion.

References -- Chapter 8 The Nazi's Pursuit for a "Humane" Method of Killing -- No Anticipation of Death -- Touching, Seeing, or Hearing -- A Peaceful and Gentle Death -- Instantaneous Death -- The Search for the Most Efficient, Profitable, and Humane Method of Killing (Without Killing) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Conclusion-The Milgram-Holocaust Linkage and Beyond -- References -- Bibliography: Volume 2 -- Index.