Instigators of Genocide Examining Hitler From a Social-Psychological Perspective

Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Mandel, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolf hitler; Collective violence; Genocide; Holocaust; Human behavior; Instigators; Perpetrators; Situationism; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244482344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133622.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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