1st Edition

Military Ethics Education and the Holocaust Opportunities, Challenges and Moral Imperatives

Edited By Michael Dobkowski, George R. Wilkes Copyright 2026
252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the nature of military ethics education after the Holocaust, using a range of national case studies. The volume examines educational opportunities offered by a range of militaries, including the USA, Australia, Lithuania, Austria and Israel, and addresses substantive and contextual problems for ethical reflection on the basis of Holocaust history. The first half of the work... Read more

1 Introduction, Michael Dobkowski and George R. Wilkes  Part I: Military Ethics Education and the Holocaust  2 Educating for Military Ethics at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jennifer Ciardelli  3 The Holocaust, Genocide and Ethics: Dialogues Across Militaries at Auschwitz, Kristina Tonn  4 The Use of the Holocaust in Ethics Training in the Austrian National Defense Academy, Paul Ertl  5 Holocaust, Memory, and Ethics in the Israeli Army's "Witnesses in Uniform" Delegations to Poland, Tammy Hoffman  6 Reflecting on the Unimaginable: The Challenge of Teaching the History of Genocide, Debbie Lackerstein  7 Teaching about the Holocaust in the Military Ethics Classroom: The Experience of Lithuania, Audrone Petrauskaite  Part II: Rethinking Ethics and the Use of Force after the Holocaust  8 Military Ethics and POWs: The Case of Bergen-Belsen, Peter J. Haas  9 Oberleutnant Wilhelm Winter's Choice: Fanatical Nazi or Regular Soldier?, Paolo Tripodi  10 Ideology and War: The Holocaust and Military Ethics Education, George R. Wilkes  11 Christian Clergy, Social Identity and Military Ethics: Lessons from the rescue of the Danish Jews, Magnus Lindén  12 The Responsibility to Protect the Victimized, or From Bystander to Intervener, Martin Rumscheidt  13 The Jewish Forest Partisans of Belorussia: The Military, Ethical and Redemptive Components of Resistance, Michael Dobkowski

Biography

Michael Dobkowski is Professor of Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York, USA, and author or editor of over a dozen books.

George R. Wilkes is a visiting research fellow, Centre for Military Ethics, King’s College London, UK.