{"id":10716,"date":"2016-01-14T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2016-01-14T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T23:55:18","slug":"wwii-history-uncovering-holocaust-perpetrators-where-few-have-looked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/14\/wwii-history-uncovering-holocaust-perpetrators-where-few-have-looked\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII History: Uncovering Holocaust Perpetrators Where Few Have Looked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Muslim Nazis, women in the SS, and Dutch \u2018bounty hunters\u2019 are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify<\/h2>\n

BOSTON \u2014 With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust\u2019s sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator \u201csub-groups\u201d are being exposed one portrait at a time, ranging from female SS guards to Dutch bounty hunters of Jews in hiding.<\/p>\n

And as researchers uncover an array of Europeans involved in the murder of Jews and other groups during Hitler\u2019s rule, perpetrators\u2019 motivations are being individually examined.<\/p>\n

Digging in 70-year-old files and knocking door-to-door for witnesses, scholars are honing the relatively new \u201cHolocaust as local history\u201d method. The trend departs from a generalized \u201cHolocaust as universal history\u201d approach by focusing on interactions between \u201cordinary\u201d victims and perpetrators \u2014 zooming way in on the action, as it were, and exploring a site\u2019s history before and after the war.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, some of these investigations are ruffling feathers.<\/p>\n

In Sarah Helm\u2019s 2015 book, \u201cRavensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler\u2019s Concentration Camp for Women<\/a>,\u201d the historian biographized the camp itself, where 132,000 women and children were imprisoned. Poring through post-war trial transcripts and archives opened after the Soviet Union\u2019s fall, Helm shed light on Ravensbruck\u2019s lesser known function as a training camp for SS women.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Muslim Nazis, women in the SS, and Dutch \u2018bounty hunters\u2019 are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify BOSTON \u2014 With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust\u2019s sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator \u201csub-groups\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,3176,1286,1899],"tags":[3175,3833,3834,3835,3464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}