Perpetrators of the Holocaust

While the main focus of the THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE project is on the Holocaust’s survivors and saviors, the subject of the perpetrators is also very important.

The organization Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics considers the German professionals such as doctors and lawyers who willingly cooperated with the Third Reich’s discriminations and murders of Jews and others deemed unfit by the Nazis. What does this mean for professionals today?

Watch this excerpt from a March 1, 2021, webinar on “Nazi Crimes and the Responsibility of Professionals”:

The organization’s free 2020 webinars are on topics such as “Rule of Law and the Ascension of the Third Reich” and “Learning from the Germans: Confronting the Legacy of Racism in the Professions.”

Ben Ferencz: U.S. Army Chief Prosecutor at the Nazi Einsatzgruppen Trial