Stefan Kühl

Print ISBN: 978-1-509-50289-9 | US $69.95 |SEP 2016

In this ground-breaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that
organizations played in facilitating the Holocaust. Drawing on well-researched case
studies, Kühl shows how ultimately, beyond any personal motives it was the integration
into an organizational framework that prompted ordinary men to carry out atrocities.
• This is a major new analysis of how normal men from ordinary professions became
the perpetrators of the Holocaust
• In the book, sociologist Stefan Kühl show how the integration of individuals into
organizations facilitated mass murder. Above any personal motivations, such as
money or peer pressure, it was the organizational framework itself that prompted
individuals to commit atrocities
• The author’s previous books on eugenics and racism have been very well received
in the english-speaking world
• Ordinary Organizations is an invaluable contribution to historical debate which will
signifcantly advance our understanding of the origins and development of the
Holocaust. At the same time, it is a highly accessible book which should fnd a
broad readership amongst the many interested in Holocaust studies and the history
of WWII… (mais)