Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations

Bruno Bettelheim

1943

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This text recounts acts of violence and torture against Jewish people. The text provides insight into Jewish history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote violence or oppression of any kind.

[ . . . ] On a terribly cold winter night when a snowstorm was blowing, all prisoners were punished by being forced to stand at attention without overcoats—they never wore any—for hours.¹ This was after having worked for more than twelve hours in the open, and having received hardly any food. The prisoners were threatened with having to stand all…

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Bruno Bettelheim

1903–1990

Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna to a secular Jewish family and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1938. He was interned in Dachau and Buchenwald and arrived as a refugee in New York in 1939. Bettelheim was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago from 1944 until 1973. He was widely known for his work on child psychology, especially his theories about emotionally disturbed children.

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