As the Holocaust escalated, the Swedish press fell silent: media and the normalisation of passivity and non-engagement in WWII Sweden

Authors :: Ester Pollack
Source :: Social Semiotics. 30:449-465
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2020.
Abstract: How could the Holocaust happen – and why did the surrounding world not react? During the first decades after World War II, in Sweden as in many other countries, a common answer was “we did not know...

Subjects :: Cultural Studies
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Communication
05 social sciences
World War II
Fell
Nazi concentration camps
050801 communication & media studies
Language and Linguistics
0508 media and communications
The Holocaust
Political science
Economic history
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

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