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The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called "privileged" positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi's concept of the "grey zone," this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on "privileged" Jews as represented by

1. Philosophical ethics in inter-war Europe : the 1929 Davos disputation and anti-(neo) Kantian backlash -- 2. The call of the Other : Levinasian ethics -- 3. In spite of man : the ethics of Elie Wiesel -- 4. "There is nothing final about the death of God" : Richard Rubenstein's post-Holocaust ethics -- 5. Toward an ethics grounded in suffering.

Introduction / Wulf Kansteiner and Todd Presner -- Part I. The stakes of narrative: Historical truth, estrangement, and disbelief / Hayden White -- On "historical modernism": a response to Hayden White / Saul Friedländer -- Sense and sensibility: the complicated Holocaust realism of Christopher Browning / Wulf Kansteiner -- A reply to Wulf Kansteiner / Christopher R. Browning -- Scales of postmemory: six of six million / Ann Rigney -- Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: a search for six of six million -- The death of the witness; or, The persistence of the differend / Marc Nichanian -- Part II. Remediations of the archive: The ethics of the algorithm: close and distant listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive / Todd Presner -- On the ethics of technology and testimony / Stephen D. Smith -- A "spatial turn" in Holocaust Studies? / Claudio Fogu -- Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, contributing authors of Geographies of the Holocaust -- Freeze-framing: temporality and the archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer / Nitzan Lebovic -- Witnessing the archive / Yael Hersonski -- Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman's memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld -- Berlin memorial redux / Peter Eisenman -- Part III. The politics of exceptionality: The Holocaust as genocide: experiential uniqueness and integrated history / Omer Bartov -- Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies / A. Dirk Moses -- The witness as "world" traveler: multidirectional memory and Holocaust internationalism before human rights / Michael Rothberg -- Fiction and solicitude: ethics and the conditions for survival / Judith Butler -- Catastrophes: afterlives of the exceptionality paradigm in Holocaust Studies / Elisabeth Weber -- Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust. Paul E. Wilson first looks at the antisemitism in Germany and Europe beginning in the decades preceding the Nazis reign of terror, and goes on to discuss the ethical decisions made in the initial stages that moved society toward genocide. The author maintains that the stages of genocide represent subtle changes that can be happening within a society in response to the moral choices made by actors. By giving attention to the stages of genocide in the Holocaust, this book contributes to the overall understanding of how the Holocaust was possible, and encourages the moral community to join the watch for the development of genocide in the modern world. Paul E. Wilson is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Shaw University, USA

Holocaust education is important for learning how healthcare has been leveraged to influence social change in the past and how it can be used to advocate for ethical social change in the future. By understanding how medical professionals became the social and political leaders of Nazi Germany, today's health professionals can learn how to avoid unethical politicization. By understanding how early twentieth century discourse on medico-social issues used terms and language that are similar, if not the same, as today's debates, proponents of different sides of these debates can understand the troubling subtexts and potential consequences of their – and the opposing side's – positions.

Holocaust education is important for learning how healthcare has been leveraged to influence social change in the past and how it can be used to advocate for ethical social change in the future. By understanding how medical professionals became the social and political leaders of Nazi Germany, today's health professionals can learn how to avoid unethical politicization. By understanding how early twentieth century discourse on medico-social issues used terms and language that are similar, if not the same, as today's debates, proponents of different sides of these debates can understand the troubling subtexts and potential consequences of their – and the opposing side's – positions.