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An Analysis of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Af: James Chappel, Tom Stammers Engelsk Paperback

An Analysis of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Af: James Chappel, Tom Stammers Engelsk Paperback
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Of all the controversies facing historians today, few are more divisive or more important than the question of how the Holocaust was possible. What led thousands of Germans – many of them middle-aged reservists with, apparently, little Nazi zeal – to willingly commit acts of genocide? Was it ideology? Was there something rotten in the German soul? Or was it – as Christopher Browning argues in this highly influential book – more a matter of conformity, a response to intolerable social and psychological pressure?

Ordinary Men is a microhistory, the detailed study of a single unit in the Nazi killing machine. Browning evaluates a wide range of evidence to seek to explain the actions of the "ordinary men" who made up reserve Police Battalion 101, taking advantage of the wide range of resources prepared in the early 1960s for a proposed war crimes trial. He concludes that his subjects were not "evil;" rather, their actions are best explained by a desire to be part of a team, not to shirk responsibility that would otherwise fall on the shoulders of comrades, and a willingness to obey authority.

Browning''s ability to explore the strengths and weaknesses of arguments – both the survivors'' and other historians'' – is what sets his work apart from other studies that have attempted to get to the root of the motivations for the Holocaust, and it is also what marks Ordinary Men as one of the most important works of its generation.

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Of all the controversies facing historians today, few are more divisive or more important than the question of how the Holocaust was possible. What led thousands of Germans – many of them middle-aged reservists with, apparently, little Nazi zeal – to willingly commit acts of genocide? Was it ideology? Was there something rotten in the German soul? Or was it – as Christopher Browning argues in this highly influential book – more a matter of conformity, a response to intolerable social and psychological pressure?

Ordinary Men is a microhistory, the detailed study of a single unit in the Nazi killing machine. Browning evaluates a wide range of evidence to seek to explain the actions of the "ordinary men" who made up reserve Police Battalion 101, taking advantage of the wide range of resources prepared in the early 1960s for a proposed war crimes trial. He concludes that his subjects were not "evil;" rather, their actions are best explained by a desire to be part of a team, not to shirk responsibility that would otherwise fall on the shoulders of comrades, and a willingness to obey authority.

Browning''s ability to explore the strengths and weaknesses of arguments – both the survivors'' and other historians'' – is what sets his work apart from other studies that have attempted to get to the root of the motivations for the Holocaust, and it is also what marks Ordinary Men as one of the most important works of its generation.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 98
ISBN-13: 9781912127474
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1912127474
Kategori: Holocaust
Udg. Dato: 5 jul 2017
Længde: 7mm
Bredde: 135mm
Højde: 200mm
Forlag: Macat International Limited
Oplagsdato: 5 jul 2017
Forfatter(e): James Chappel, Tom Stammers
Forfatter(e) James Chappel, Tom Stammers

Kategori Holocaust

ISBN-13 9781912127474

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 98

Udgave

Længde 7mm

Bredde 135mm

Højde 200mm

Udg. Dato 5 jul 2017

Oplagsdato 5 jul 2017

Forlag Macat International Limited