From Murders to Victims : Dilemmas of Doing Perpetrator Research in an Illiberal State<

Andrea Peto

doi:10.2307/j.ctv18bv9tq.12

From Murders to Victims : Dilemmas of Doing Perpetrator Research in an Illiberal State<

Andrea Peto

Department of Gender Studies

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Rarely does a researcher have the luck to research a war criminal with an uncommon surname that one can look up easily in an online phone directory. This was the case with my research project on women perpetrators during World War II in Hungary. The question is whether this really can be considered as luck. On the basis of this research, which was informed by my best feminist intentions, I have written a bestselling book on women perpetrators in Hungary during World War II.¹ Yet this book has actually ended up supporting the arguments of revisionist historians in an illiberal...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
Editors	Kjell Anderson, Erin Jessee
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Pages	157-172
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18bv9tq.12
State	Published - 2020

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Name	Researching Perpetrators of Genocide

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