Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader [Der Vorleser] - 1995

A novel exploring the complexity of guilt and responsibility in Post-War Germany

Schmidt, Sibylle. Perpetrator’s Knowledge: What and How Can We Learn from Perpetrator Testimony? - 2017

Article on the problematic ethical aspects of perpetrator testimony

Schwab, Gabriele. Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma - 2010

Book on the transgenerational transmission of trauma

Scorsese, Martin, dir. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) - 2023

Film about the Osage murders in 1920s US from the perpetrator perspective.

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness - 1974

Portrait of Franz Stangl, Commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka

Skloot, Robert. “Whose Evil Is This? Perpetrators in the Theater.” - 2019

Portrayal of perpetrators and victims in theater post-WW2.

Smirnova, Michelle, “What is the Shortest Russian Joke? Communism. Russian Cultural Consciousness Expressed Through Soviet Humor” – 2014 - 2014

A look into how Russian political humor interacts with communist discourse.

Snaza, Nathan. “Posthuman(ist) Education and the Banality of Violence” - 2017

Snaza advocates for post-humanist education ‘after Auschwitz.’

Snow, James. “Mothers and Monsters: Women, Gender, and Genocide” - 2018

Article on the representation of female perpetrators

Söhner, Jasmin, and Máté Zombory. Accusing Hans Globke. - 2022

Private individuals lifted FRG consciousness in the Hans Globke case.