• DOI:10.1177/0002716296548001010
Corpus ID: 145297248

Circles of Hell: Jewish and Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazis

@article{Johnson1996CirclesOH,
  title={Circles of Hell: Jewish and Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazis},
  author={M. Johnson and C. Rittner},
  journal={The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
  year={1996},
  volume={548},
  pages={123 - 137}
}

• M. Johnson, C. Rittner
• Published 1996
• Sociology
• The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Some scholars refer to the relationship between the Jewish and the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust as “the many circles of hell in Dante's Inferno.” The Jews occupy the center, with the other victims extending outward in concentric rings. Michael Berenbaum has argued that in order to comprehend the Jewish center, one must “fully probe the ripple effects as well as the indisputable core.” This article proposes a framework for teaching about the “mosaic of victims” in the Third Reich. It also… Expand

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