Professionals seamlessly absorbed Nazi doctrine into ordinary work routines.

Evidence

Consistent with Hilberg are findings of more recent historical research on the conduct of members of specific professions who, when the Nazis came to power, readily assimilated Nazi doctrine and directives into their everyday, normative activities, virtually without missing a beat. Weisberg (1996), a legal historian, studied the behavior of French lawyers and judges under the col­ laborationist, pro-Nazi, Vichy government, which instituted racial, exclusion­ ary laws that eventually led to the deportation of 75,000 Jews to the Nazi death camps. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 613

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Weisberg’s finding that legal professionals folded exclusionary law into business-as-usual connects to the published article on moral panics over dress as elite signaling — both show professional normativity laundering political violence.
• XREF: connects to: Ordinary Germans, not a special kind of German, carried out the Holocaust — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 42

Broader Connections

• Ordinary Germans, not a special kind of German, carried out the Holocaust #corroborates (0.95) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 42