On the Normalization of Organized Brutalities

This book takes an organizational sociological perspective on the systematically carried out mass murders in the context of Nazi euthanasia in Hadamar. On the basis of numerous theoretically elaborated as well as empirically proven organizational mechanisms, it is shown how these illegal practices were "normalized" in an extraordinary way by and for the personnel, who were not trained or otherwise predisposed to murder. The acts thus became a legitimate expectation of action, while at the same time the organizational integration had a desolidarizing, demoralizing, and responsibility-relieving effect.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

First sociological research of the topic Organizational sociological perspective on the NS On the "legalization" of illegal practices

Autorentext
Dennis Firkus, M.A., is lecturer at the Institute for Work and Employment Studies, Leibniz University Hannover, and part-time lecturer at Bielefeld University, Section Sociology of Organizations.

Inhalt

Beyond Simple Explanations: An Introduction to Euthanasia.- Research Agenda: On Organized Brutalities.- On the Normalization of Illegal Practices.- The (Temporary) Stop of Aktion T4.- Air War, Disaster Medical Response, and the Hadamar Asylum.- The Second Murder Phase in Hadamar.- Conclusion: The Normalization of Organized Brutalities. <p