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Book SynopsisComparing the general public's reaction to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany with American public opinion of US participation in the genocidal policies of Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary forces, this title demonstrates that moral indifference to the suffering of others was the common response.
Trade Review"This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide."—
John M. Swomley, St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City
"Porpora has brought together materials and insights which extend the bounds of holocaust thinking, reveal new insights in the Nazi holocaust and the shaping of 'holocaust-like' events, and sensitize us to the ways in which indifference can allow genocides to take place. There is a sense in which Porpora's book is a call to action—a call for us to rise above our moral and political indifference, to take action against 'disempowerment' and the early signs of genocide-making by our governments. In the tradition of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., this book reminds us that we are human beings first and subjects afterwards; that we do not
have a moral obligation to follow orders that brutalize our fellow human beings.... A powerful and well-researched account of the move from indifference to genocide, both in Nazi Germany and Central America."—
Ronald E. Santoni, Maria Teresa Barney Professor of Philosophy, Denison University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Banality of Evil 3. Moral Indifference, the Rise of Hitler, and the Extermination of the Jews 4. The Two Faces of Genocide in Central America 5. Has the United States Become a Party to Genocide? To a Holocaust-like Event? 6. How We Allowed Ourselves to Become a Party to Genocide 7. In the Footsteps of the Righteous Notes Index
