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Ordinary Men

Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Christopher R. Browning

This book explores how a group of ordinary middle-aged Germans became cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews during WWII. Christopher R. Browning argues that most of the men in the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were not fanatical Nazis but committed atrocities due to group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. While discussing a specific Reserve Unit, Browning's general argument is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do alone. Ordinary Men is a powerful and important work with themes and arguments still relevant today.
Publish Date
1993-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
1993-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1992
Goodreads Rating
4.1
ISBN
9780060995065
Recommendations
2
Recommendations
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2022-04-03T16:40:50.000Z
@DBarkhuff I remember reading this as a senior in high school. Really important book for today as well.      source