Dennis Klein

Professor of History , Kean University

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Dennis Klein is professor of history and director of Jewish studies in the Department of History at Kean University in New Jersey. His latest book is Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation (2017).

Written by Dennis Klein

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SOCIAL HISTORY

The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor

‘The appalling silence of the good people’: how the bystander rose to prominence as a morally complicit actor in history

by Dennis Klein