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Shocking as it is, this book--a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners--gives evidence to suggest the opposite conclusion: that the sad-sack German draftees who perpetrated much of the Holocaust were not expressing some uniquely Germanic evil, but that they were average men comparable to the run of humanity, twisted by historical forces into inhuman shapes. Browning, a thorough historian who lets no one off the moral hook nor fails to weigh any contributing factor--cowardice, ideological indoctrination, loyalty to the battalion, and reluctance to force the others to bear more than their share of what each viewed as an excruciating duty--interviewed hundreds of the killers, who simply could not explain how they had sunken into savagery under Hitler. A good book to read along with Ron Rosenbaum's comparably excellent study Explaining Hitler. --Tim Appelo
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Chilling analysis of how a typical unit of German police actually operated during the Holocaust, by Browning (History/Pacific Lutheran Univ.). In March 1942, some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive. Eleven months later, 75 to 80 percent were dead--the result, Browning says, of ``a short, intense wave of mass murder,'' centered in Poland. During 16 months, Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of just over 450 men from Hamburg, was responsible in Poland for the shooting of 39,000 Jews and the deportation to Treblinka of 44,000 more. The horror began on July 13, 1942, when the unit's commander, one Major Trapp, ordered his men to round up 1,800 Jews from the village of Jozefow, to select several hundred as ``work Jews,'' and to shoot the rest--men, women, and children. Trapp apparently gave the order with tears in his eyes and gave permission to older soldiers not to participate. Altogether, 10 to 20 percent of the battalion availed themselves of this permission. The remaining men carried out the assignment: ``the shooters were gruesomely besmirched with blood, brains, and bone splinters. It hung on their clothing.'' What sort of men were they? Browning bases his answers on the judicial interrogation in the 1960's of 210 men from the battalion. They were ordinary men, he finds, on the elderly side, drawn from the lower orders of German society, and few had an education above junior-high-school level. And after examining studies dealing with this phenomenon and evidence of such conduct in other wars, Browning determines that it's not just Nazism or Germans that produces such men: There were American units in the Pacific that boasted of never taking captives. ``If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 could become killers under such circumstances,'' he writes, ``what group of men cannot?'' It is the care with which Browning examines the evidence, as well as the soberness of his conclusions, that gives this work such power and impact. (Eight pages of b&w photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This book is just incredible; it is unfortunate the Christopher Browning even has to think twice about Daniel Goldhagen (the mere mention of whose name is giving unwarranted attention). This book has created one of the absolutely most important lenses through which to view the participation of "ordinary" Germans in the Final Solution. In the newest edition of the book, Goldhagen's conclusions are soundly dismissed (and it becomes obvious that Goldhagen is probably influenced by his own bias and bigotry towards the Germans).
Browning is fair in his portrayal of Police Battalion 101, showing that some men had little to no compunctions about killing, while others refused to participate. There are definitely no excuses being made for these men, but at the same time one can see that they are being swept up by the events and atmosphere of the day. The prevalence of alcohol at many of the Battalion's actions indicates the pain the men were dealing with at the time. They were definitely not Goldhagen's "willing executioners." Browning does much to assuage the guilt of ordinary Germans by pointing out the participation in the killings by non-Germans (the Croats, Romanians, and "Hiwis," for example). The German people should not necesarily be held responsible, for 99% of the guilt must lie with the Nazi leadership. This is not to say that the nation should be completely forgivin, though.
Anyone interested in Holocaust history or the "Goldhagen debate" must read this book!
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Professor Browning's book recounts the events and the participation of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the extermination of the Polish Jewry. The Battalion was composed mostly of middle-aged, working-class and average Germans. The book describes how this group of "ordinary men" was transformed into mass-murderers. In the book there are detailed descriptions of the Battalion's actions, and the author provides an explanation behind these men's descent into committing genocide. As an afterthought, the reader would inevitably ask, what would I have done if I were a member in the Battalion?
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I read this book to get a glimpse into what would make ORDINARY individuals turn into effecient killing machines. I am brought up in a world where i look at crimes and say, "How can people do that?" So the point this book makes that anyone, including myself, is prone to this persuasion and moral altering is very powerful, and i found it interesting just how Himmler and his officials went about it.
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A tremendous research effort
This book is a rare combination of scholarly analysis and narrative style. It is equally good for the casual reader and serious student. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. November 1999 von A Nony Mouse
An astonishingly personal view of war criminals.
Christopher Browning tackles the challenge of getting inside of the minds of the men who carried out the worst war crimes of the last century--maybe of all humanity. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. November 1999 veröffentlicht
An Essential Book for Understanding the Holocaust
If I were given the impossible task of sellecting three essential books to help one understand the holocaust, "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalian 101 and the Final... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Unsettling and frightening...
If you still are amazed that the holocaust ever happened, reading this book will help to provide some answers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Unsettling and frightening...
If you still are amazed that the holocaust ever happened, reading this book will help to provide some answers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Not all Germans were alike
No punishment was ever given to anyone who chose not to participate in the mass killings. The question this book attempts to solve is, "Why did Germans who were opposed to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
A Necessary Antidote To Goldhagen
I would say to anyone who casually read Goldhagen's book that this is it's far better researched and rational nemesis. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
A decent over-view of the Police Battalions terrible actions
Thorough, percise, an easy read. Not greatly intellectual but useful in research.
Am 18. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
The ease of going with the flow...
This book sort of explains the question "how could normal people do such terrible things?" or "how could normal people act that way? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
May the Force be with US
Some psychological research by Milgram and Zimbardo and others shows it is disturbingly easy to get ordinary people to torture and brutalize somebody and/or to kill them. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Mai 1998 von Dr. Frank Stech
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