Victim cooperation was itself a rational strategy, not a lapse of judgment

Evidence

The ‘save what you can’ strategy was pursued until the last Jew lay buried in a Ukrainian ditch or went up in smoke through a Treblinka chimney. It was pursued by people armed with logic and well trained in the art of rational thinking. The strategy itself was a triumph and an ultimate accolade of rationality. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 398

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the earlier chapters’ treatment of the dual-role of victims and to how cooperation is solicited under coercion. — connects to: Exploiting victim rationality was cheaper than controlling them through fear — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 581; Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95; Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382 (+4 more)

Related

• Victim cooperation made the Holocaust bureaucratically feasible and historically distinctive. (similarity 0.84)
• Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. (similarity 0.84)
• Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction (similarity 0.84)
• Exploiting victim rationality was cheaper than controlling them through fear (similarity 0.83)
• Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust succeeded partly through victims’ rational actions. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Rational self-defense adjustments are compatible with both sides still preferring mutual non-attack #expands (0.85) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 504
• Victim cooperation made the Holocaust bureaucratically feasible and historically distinctive. #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 342
• Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality #exemplifies (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 544