Instruments of Murder
Einsatzgruppen Officers’ Leadership Styles and their Effect on Followers’ Motivations
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https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0122/art_marm01Keywords:
Leadership styles, Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppen, Holocaust perpetratorsAbstract
The article follows two Einsatzgruppen officers and explores how their leadership styles encouraged rank and file members under their command to participate in mass executions. Reading into postwar testimonies, the study traces the historical, social, and organizational factors that shaped the officers’ approaches, and how they manifested during their Einsatzgruppen operations. The inquiry utilizes social psychology to distinguish and characterize each leadership style, and to assess how their separate and combined influences prompted followers’ apparent willingness to participate in mass murder.
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