Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning

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Sivuja: 384

Kustantaja: Harper Perennial , 2017

ISBN-13: 9780062303028

ISBN-10: 0062303023

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A remarkable – and singularly chilling &ndsah; glimpse of human behaviour... This meticulously researched book... represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.

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 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.

Stunningly powerful... Christopher R. Browning tells us about such Germans and helps us understand, better than we did before, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen but also how they were transformed psychologically from the ordinary men of his title into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history.

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Holokaustin tutkimukseen erikoistunut historioitsija Christopher R. Browning on Frank Porter Graham -oppituolin historian emeritusprofessori (University of North Carolina). Vuonna 2006 hänet valittiin American Academy of Arts and Sciences -tiedeyhteisön jäseneksi.