People acting in groups sometimes exhibit a capacity for violence that they would not otherwise demonstrate individually. Instances of group violence—including acts of public humiliation, physical abuse, sexual violence, and murder—are often focused on individuals perceived as “others” who are excluded from the larger group.
group violence
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"A Pogrom Wave in Germany"
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"Anti-Jewish Movement Opposed"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Before the war there were 80,000 Jews in Kiev..."
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"Can America Afford to Condemn Hitler for His Racial Policies?"
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"The Massacre of the Jews of Jassy"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Warsaw's Jews are being murdered in Treblinki"
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustAbel Meeropol: "Bitter Fruit"
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustBroadcast from Catholic University of America after Kristallnacht
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Jechiel Górny
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustEdward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Police Responding to Demonstrations in Berlin
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustLangston Hughes: "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Amalie Malsch to Wilhelm Malsch
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustNAACP Anti-Lynching Leaflet
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNorman Krasna, "Lest We Forget"
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOrder on "Measures against the Jews"
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Police Battalion 101 Celebrating Christmas
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners Forced to Exercise
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners in a Greenhouse
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Trawniki Men at Belzec Killing Center
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTestimony of Fiszl Kuszner
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleTestimony of Mariia Trufanova
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustUntitled Drawing by Arthur Szyk