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The Holocaust History Podcast

Ep. 60- Perpetrators of Mass Violence with Alette Smeulers

1 tim 20 min•28 juli 2025

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What makes someone a perpetrator? Are killers born or made? One thing that is clear in studying the Holocaust and other genocides is that perpetrators come in all shapes and sizes with just as diverse a set of motivations.

On today’s episode, I talked with Alette Smeulers about her work in studying perpetrators from a variety of perspectives across many different forms of mass violence.

Alette Smeulers is a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Groningen.

Smeulers, Alette. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? (2023)

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