1986/01/01 by Alice Kaplan, Maurice Bardeche · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society #French Historical and Cultural Studies #Genocide #Interview #Nazism #Face (sociological concept) #Impulse (physics) #Psychology #Psychoanalysis #Media studies #Criminology #Sociology #Social psychology #History #Political science #Aesthetics #Art #Law #Social science #Politics
paper · doi:10.2307/3684941
openalex publication_date 1986/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
It is pointless to interview them, corrupting, too. A former Nazi, or a French Fascist, come to that, can perhaps provide firm facts or testimony, but they find it too hard to face their own reality. All, down to the humblest, who participated in genocide share the same psychological impulse to use an interview to explain away their responsibilities, dodging off beside someone else. An interviewer