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|description = German word meaning 'Perpetrator people' and applied by Orthodox Judaism to the alledged collective guilt of Germans as a race of people for the events of World War II - with particular emphasis on [[The Holocaust]]
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|description = German word meaning 'Perpetrator people' and applied by Orthodox Judaism to the alledged collective guilt of Germans as a race of people for the events of World War II - with particular emphasis on [[The Holocaust]].
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'''A slogan/epithet meaning "Perpetrator people".''' It encalsulates the thesis of collective guilt, which postulates that a people/race is morally responsible for criminal acts of it leaders. It refers to a nation as a whole as ''culprit'' for immoral and inhuman acts. In spite of having a theoretically universal applicability, its usage originated - and is largely confined to - alleged German guilt for the events of both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], in particular "''[[The Holocaust]]"''  
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'''Tätervolk''' is a [[German]] word literally meaning "Perpetrator people". It encalsulates the thesis of collective guilt, which postulates that a people/race is morally responsible for criminal acts of it leaders. It refers to a nation as a whole as ''culprit'' for immoral and inhuman acts. In spite of having a theoretically universal applicability, its usage originated - and is largely confined to - alleged German guilt for the events of both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], in particular "''[[The Holocaust]]"''. This usage was given additional currency following the publication of [[Daniel Goldgagen]]'s 1996 book ''Hitler's Willing Executioners'' <ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitlers-Willing-Executioners-Ordinary-Holocaust/dp/0349107866/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438335679&sr=1-1&keywords=Hitler%27s+willing+executioners Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust] - ISBN 0349107866</ref>. The racist nastiness of the concept is perhaps best illustrated by [[Elie Wiesel]]'s infamous injunction:
 
 
Usage was given additional impetus following the publication of [[Daniel Goldgagen]]'s 1996 book ''Hitler's Willing Executioners'' <ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitlers-Willing-Executioners-Ordinary-Holocaust/dp/0349107866/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438335679&sr=1-1&keywords=Hitler%27s+willing+executioners Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust] - ISBN 0349107866</ref>. It The racist nastiness of the concept is perhaps best illustrated by [[Elie Wiesel]]' infamous injunction:
 
 
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'''Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.''' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_%28book%29 Night (Book] - Wikipedia page July 2015</ref>
 
'''Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.''' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_%28book%29 Night (Book] - Wikipedia page July 2015</ref>
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===Repudiated by the Nuremberg Trials===
 
===Repudiated by the Nuremberg Trials===
 
German collective guilt was specifically repudiated by the [[Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg war crimes tribunal]].
 
German collective guilt was specifically repudiated by the [[Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg war crimes tribunal]].
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Latest revision as of 11:41, 24 January 2018

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German word meaning 'Perpetrator people' and applied by Orthodox Judaism to the alledged collective guilt of Germans as a race of people for the events of World War II - with particular emphasis on The Holocaust.

Tätervolk is a German word literally meaning "Perpetrator people". It encalsulates the thesis of collective guilt, which postulates that a people/race is morally responsible for criminal acts of it leaders. It refers to a nation as a whole as culprit for immoral and inhuman acts. In spite of having a theoretically universal applicability, its usage originated - and is largely confined to - alleged German guilt for the events of both World War I and World War II, in particular "The Holocaust". This usage was given additional currency following the publication of Daniel Goldgagen's 1996 book Hitler's Willing Executioners [1]. The racist nastiness of the concept is perhaps best illustrated by Elie Wiesel's infamous injunction:

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. [2]

Readers are invited to juxtapose the positions of the Words German and Jew in that piece of vitriol and consider what would happen to the person promulgating it - especially if he/she was a German.

Repudiated by the Nuremberg Trials

German collective guilt was specifically repudiated by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.

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