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  Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback) By (author) Christopher R. Browning

  

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  Short Description for Ordinary MenThis volume takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and explores in detail its composition, its actions and the methods by which it was trained to perform acts of genocide on an industrial scale.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 September 2005
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Holocaust | Military History | Second World War
  • ISBN 13: 9780141000428 ISBN 10: 0141000422
  • Sales rank: 15,375

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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.