Perpetrators engineer coerced choices that force victims to destroy their own families.

Evidence

Two months ago one of the prisoners escaped… . The camp commandant was furious about the escape and demanded to know the identity of the escaped prisoner. No one could provide him with the information he was seeking… . In his fury, the commandant decided to play a sadistic game with us. He demanded that any pairs of brothers, or fathers and sons, step forward. We were terrified of what he might do if we did not comply. My father and I stepped forward. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 639

Categorization

• XREF: Instantiates the broader perpetrator mechanism of manufacturing no-win dilemmas where any refusal guarantees death. — connects to: Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95; Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349; System justification makes victims unwittingly complicit in their own disadvantage. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1071

Broader Connections

• Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction #expands (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349
• Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95
• System justification makes victims unwittingly complicit in their own disadvantage. #complicates (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1071