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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R Browning (Paperback, 2001)
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This detailed and harrowing study of a single group of mostly middle-aged policemen from provincial Germany has achieved classic status among histories of the Holocaust. Far from being demonic and hate-filled sadists, most of the group had no history of anti-semitism or of far right politics. Browning explores the motivation of these men and the horribly familiar mechanisms of man-management and group solidarity that reduced a team of "ordinary men" into a bestial instrument of madness. It is a book that offers no comfort to those who seek to explain the Holocaust in terms of German exceptionalism, but it is a significant contribution to the history of World War II.
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In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most of them had never fired a shot at a human being before, yet they killed with little hesitation and eventually went on to slaughter tens of thousands in cold blood. How could this transformation have taken place?Christopher R. Browning's shocking study of how Reserve Police Battalion 101 became mass murderers has already achieved classic status all over the world. By examining the policemen's frank personal testimonies from their post-war interrogations, he builds up a startling study of human evil in the Holocaust. He does not present us with psychotic sadists, and, in his powerful response to Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, also refutes the idea of a pervasive anti-Semitism unique to German culture. Instead, the result is a far more disturbing view of humanity - one which also has powerful implications for society today.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141000428
eBay Product ID (ePID)89603964
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Publication Year2001
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher R Browning
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height200 mm
Item Weight232 g
Item Width133 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorChristopher R Browning
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