1. Sociology of the Holocaust
Robert Fine 2009
Some early questions

2. What’s in a name?
On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil

3. What’s new?
On industrialised murder

4. What’s singular?
On total domination

5. What’s wrong?
On punishing the perpetrators

6. How could you do it?
On monstrous deeds and ordinary men

7. Why the Jews?
On antisemitism

8. Who decided?
On structure and agency

9. Who resisted?
On the role of victims

10. Who looked on? Indifference, difference and the bystander
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak out because I was not a labor leader. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
--The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

11. How does one remember?
On memoir, testimony and fiction

12. What can you see?
On the role of museums

13. What don’t you see ?

14. What now?
On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial

15. Jews as Perpetrators?