JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Raul Hilberg, Gestapo
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Raul hilberg talks about the various actors that participated in the. The category of bystanders is the most complicated and the biggest in terms of numbers. They were faced or knew about the atrocities. The division is quite static and assumed an individual could just have one role during the holocaust, especially if we look at the action of those who fit into the category of the bystanders (which is not true) Many start as bystanders but are often victims, perpetrators or all of the above. The genocide would be much harder to accomplish if the germans did not find so many willing collaborators. The bystanders are very rarely just bystanders in the narrow definition, often they actively participate in the actions of hunting down, informing or stealing from jews. Especially when it came to eastern europe; ethnic poles, etc. The definition of bystanders can mean two things.
