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Mary Fulbrook explores the role of ordinary Germans in the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust <\/p>

By Lauren Good\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 18 December 2023 at 07:29 AM<\/p>

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In 1945, after defeat in the Second World War, many Germans claimed to have known nothing about what had happened to their fellow Jewish citizens \u2013 and with that, the idea of the \u2018innocent bystander\u2019 was born. But just how true was this claim? Delving into a rich archive of personal accounts of life in the Nazi era, Mary Fulbrook has unearthed a far more complex story, as she tells Rebecca Franks.<\/p>\n\n

Mary Fulbrook is the author of Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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