Instruments of Murder - Leadership Styles and Compliance in the SS-Einsatzgruppen
Instruments of Murder - Leadership Styles and Compliance in the SS-Einsatzgruppen
Author(s): Maayan ArmelinSubject(s): Military history, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: SS-Einsatzgruppen; Mass murder; Einsatzgruppen operations;
Summary/Abstract: The article follows two Einsatzgruppen officers and explores how their leadership styles encouraged rank and file members under their command to participate in mass executions. Reading into post-war testimonies, the study traces the historical, social, and organisational factors that shaped the officers’ approaches, and how they manifested during their Einsatzgruppen operations. The inquiry utilises social psychology to distinguish and characterize each leadership style, and to assess how their separate and combined influences prompted followers’ apparent willingness to participate in mass murder.
Journal: S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
- Issue Year: 9/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 71-78
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English