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Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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HarperCollins Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6LGZ72W
EAN: 9780062303028
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Zustellung: Di, 16.06.2026
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Christopher R. Browning
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Softcover
Anzahl Seiten
- 384