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Dehumanisation and the Second World War

Paul Tritschler presents a less well-known perspective on the atrocities of the Second World War and considers the psychological explanations

Dresden after Allied bombing, 1945

obedience, conformity, social identity theory, genocide, moral behaviour

If asked to match up the words ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ with any country on the globe, few would be surprised if Germany and Japan were among the top choices. These countries are much changed today, but it remains important that each of us remembers their part in the terrible crimes of the Second World War, and that we learn from them.

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