Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

10/1/1982 - 8/31/1984

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)


Choice Under Duress: A Holocaust Case-Study

FAIN: RO-20267-82

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003-9242)
Leonard M. Ehrlich (Project Director: April 1981 to October 1990)

To support research on the philosophical problem of choice under the duress of forced leadership. The project will focus on an actual case, that of Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein, Chief of a Jewish Council installed by the National Socialist regime.