Ordinary Men - Revised Edition: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Paperback - 2017
by Browning, Christopher R
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Details
- Title Ordinary Men - Revised Edition: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Author Browning, Christopher R
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2017-02-28
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR011641866
- ISBN 9780062303028 / 0062303023
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Cultural Region: Polish
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Germany, World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities
- Dewey Decimal Code 940
From the rear cover
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as roundups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.
While the book discusses a specific reserve unit during World War II, the general argument Browning makes is that most people are susceptible to the pressure of a group setting and committing actions they would never do of their own volition.
Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.
