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The Crime of Complicity: the Bystander in the Holocaust - Amos Guiora

by Amos Guiora

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The Crime of Complicity: the Bystander in the Holocaust Amos Guiora ISBN 9781634257312

In The Crime of Complicity, Amos N. Guiora confronts one of the most urgent moral and legal questions of our time: what responsibility do bystanders bear when they choose not to intervene in the face of harm? Approaching this issue through both a deeply personal lens and rigorous legal analysis, Guiora begins with the Holocaust and extends his inquiry into contemporary society.

Drawing on the experiences of his parents—both Holocaust survivors—and the loss of his grandparents, along with extensive historical research and interviews, Guiora examines the role of the bystander in three pivotal contexts: the death marches, the German occupation of Holland, and the German occupation of Hungary. He demonstrates that while the Third Reich formulated genocidal policies, their execution depended heavily on widespread bystander non-intervention.

Guiora then brings this examination into the modern era, analyzing high-profile sexual assault cases at Vanderbilt and Stanford Universities, as well as other incidents in which bystanders faced the choice of whether to act—and the profound consequences of that choice.

Grounded in the personal reality of his family’s survival, Guiora challenges the notion that moral instincts and compassion alone are sufficient to protect those in danger. He argues instead that intervention must be understood as a legal obligation, not merely a moral one.

The Crime of Complicity ultimately poses a provocative and unsettling question: Should the duty to intervene be codified into law—and should the failure to act be treated as a crime?

The Crime of Complicity: the Bystander in the Holocaust Amos Guiora ISBN 9781634257312, 978-1634257312 & 9781634257329

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