People acting in groups sometimes exhibit a capacity for violence that they would not otherwise demonstrate individually. Instances of group violence—including acts of public humiliation, physical abuse, sexual violence, and murder—are often focused on individuals perceived as “others” who are excluded from the larger group.
group violence
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNorman Krasna, "Lest We Forget"
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOrder on "Measures against the Jews"
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Police Battalion 101 Celebrating Christmas
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners Forced to Exercise
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners in a Greenhouse
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Trawniki Men at Belzec Killing Center
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTestimony of Fiszl Kuszner
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleTestimony of Mariia Trufanova
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustUntitled Drawing by Arthur Szyk