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Scholars interested in the conceptual and research methodological approaches to bystanders will find great sources of research inspiration in a number of chapters... This rich, multidimensional book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the limits and difficulties of categorising bystanders. It advances the field and, crucially, provides a roadmap for future research into this complex, unsettling figure, not just during the Holocaust, but also beyond. * BMGN Low Countries Historical Review This collection stands as an extraordinary and incisive contribution to understanding the processes of extreme violence. Probing the Limits of Categorization is an important book that promises to provoke fruitful discussion. * Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois and author of An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler With its disciplinarily diverse contributions, this book offers a captivating and discerning overview of the 'bystander' in recent Holocaust studies, rethinking questions that have intrigued historians of the Holocaust for decades. This volume is a thought-provoking and important contribution to the field. * Caroline Mezger, Center for Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary History

Scholars interested in the conceptual and research methodological approaches to bystanders will find great sources of research inspiration in a number of chapters... This rich, multidimensional book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the limits and difficulties of categorising bystanders. It advances the field and, crucially, provides a roadmap for future research into this complex, unsettling figure, not just during the Holocaust, but also beyond. BMGN Low Countries Historical Review

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Christina Morina is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bielefeld. From 2015 to 2019, she was DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam. She has also worked as lecturer at the University of Jena and was a research fellow at the Jena Center 20th Century History. Her dissertation Legacies of Stalingrad: Remembering the Eastern Front War in Germany since 1945 appeared in 2011. Since then, she has published a number of books and articles on modern German and European political-intellectual history and memory culture, among them Die Erfindung des Marxismus. Wie eine Idee die Welt eroberte (2017, forthcoming in English in 2022), and Zur rechten Zeit. Wider die Ruckkehr des Nationalismus (2019, with N. Frei, F. Maubach and M. Tandler).

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