Victoria J Barnett

In the first detailed study of so-called "bystanders" during the Holocaust, Barnett explores the incremental processes by which "ordinary people" become complicit in terrible evil.

• "Her study of the psychosocial dynamics behind moral decision making can also help historians look for the patterns of primary data that can prove fruitful in understanding the behaviors of bystanders as they confront such assaults on humanity as those set in motion by the Nazis. She helps historians to answer the questions of why and how normal people watch political murder from the sidelines." --American Historical Review