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  2. German collective guilt - Wikipedia

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    Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote an influential essay in 1945 about this concept as a psychological phenomenon, in which he asserted that the German people felt a collective guilt (Kollektivschuld) for the atrocities committed by their fellow countrymen, and so introduced the term into German intellectual discourse.

  3. First they came ... - Wikipedia

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

  4. Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    [79] [80] The Marxist historian Fritz Klein wrote that while there was a path from Versailles to Hitler, the former did not make "Hitler's takeover of power inevitable" and that "the Germans had a choice when they decided to take this path. In other words, they did not have to. Hitler's victory was not an unavoidable result of Versailles." [81]

  5. Diffusion of responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Diffusion of responsibility [1] is a sociopsychological phenomenon whereby a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when other bystanders or witnesses are present. Considered a form of attribution , the individual assumes that others either are responsible for taking action or have already done so.

  6. Managing up and managing down - Wikipedia

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    Not taking responsibility for the team as a whole. When managing a group the failures and successes can be attributed to the team's leader/manager, forfeiting the responsibility when the team fails is not good leadership. Lack of personal motivation. People pick up on the habits of the people managing them.

  7. Moral responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Paul Sartre suggested that people sometimes avoid incrimination and responsibility by hiding behind determinism: "we are always ready to take refuge in a belief in determinism if this freedom weighs upon us or if we need an excuse". [14] A similar view is that individual moral culpability lies in individual character.

  8. Collective responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies. [1] [2] Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed institutions, e.g. boarding schools (punishing a whole class for the actions of one known or unknown pupil), military units, prisons (juvenile and adult), psychiatric ...

  9. Cautionary tale - Wikipedia

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    Some films, such as Gremlins, satirized this framework by imposing very arbitrary rules whose violation results in horrendous consequences for the community by not taking responsibility. Cautionary tales are sometimes heavily criticized for their ham-fisted approach to ethics. [citation needed] The Cold Equations is a well-known example. In the ...