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Christopher R Browning | 9780060995065 | | | | | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Shelves: history. As if it wasn't so much racial hatred that provoked the violence as the fear of appearing weak and cowardly to one's comrades. That would change. This was the pre-industrial phase of , before the purpose-built death camps at Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec were Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition for business. The execution takes place far away. The shooter then fired off a burst at these prone victims. In all, Browning puts the total body count for these roughly German men at a minimum of 83, Jews; of those, at least 38, were Jews whom members of the battalion personally shot. Most of these men hesitated to kill women and children in the beginning. Basically, they were a combination of police force and National Guardsmen; not eligible, for the most Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition, for regular military service, due to age or some other reason, but frequently used to support operations in areas where the German military had conquered. These were not atrocities one has come to expect from war during the heat of battle Malmedy, My Lai, etc. Browning goes through each possibility. Jul 15, Tim rated it liked it Shelves: germanynon-fictionholocaust. A handful took advantage of the offer; the rest, in a highly disorganized, ad hoc, fashion, trucked Jews from the town, marched them into the nearby woods, and chaotically shot them in batches at point-blank range. By nightfall, they had rounded up Jozefow's 1, Jews, selected several hundred men as "work Jews," and shot the rest--that is, some 1, women, children, and old people. I'm not a psychologist so I'm probably wrong, but here goes. Several battalion members slipped away and were cursed as weaklings. Afterword: The more recent edition of Ordinary Men has an afterword from Browning dissecting his ongoing debate with Daniel Goldhagen author of Hitler's Willing Executioners. The implied audience is not Jewish. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The Nazis didn't make that weapon; they just picked it up from where it was lying on the ground. It focuses on the really ordinary men who made up this unit and partook in the killing of thousands of Jewish women, children and the old and sickly by firing squad. With a minimum of psychobabble, Browning tries to compare the actions of the Policemen with some University studies where students acting as prisoners were given fake shocks. May 15, Sweetwilliam rated it really liked it. I believe that these Jews would have preferred to have been shocked a few times or even shipped off to Abu Ghraib to live out the war forming naked pyramids. One of the books on my list is about women in , but fundamentally, everyone in a position of power in Hitler's Germany was male. Major Trapp and another officer were deported to Poland in and executed. Books by Christopher R. Each of us can be Cain. Pretending something isn't what it is by calling something else in huge bold letters. One metalworker from Bremerhaven contented himself with the rationale that he would shoot only children, since if his partner shot the mother then the child would be unable to survive alone and killing it would be an act of mercy. Another factor was the process of dehumanization: abetted by Nazi racial theories that were embraced by policemen who preferred not to see themselves as killers, Jews were seen as less than people, as creatures who could be killed without the qualms that would be provoked in them were they to kill fellow Germans or even Slavs. NOOK Book. ISBN 13: 9780060190132

View all 36 comments. Add to Basket. Some were sadists who went out of their way to torture, beat and humiliate Jews before murdering them. The men did poorly. By Christopher R. Ordinary Men is about a reserve battalion of the Order Police sent into Poland in to assist in the Final Solution. Of the many thousands of other German policemen involved in the Final Solution, West German prosecutors brought to trial only a few, and still fewer convictions were obtained. Having grown up in the United States and having seen my country commit invasions and atrocities throughout my life, most overtly by our military, and having had most of my elder relatives tell of their experiences under Nazi occupation during the war, I have grown very sensitive about acting like 'a good Nazi' myself. They included men who, before the war, had been professional policemen as well as businessmen, dockworkers, truck drivers, construction workers, machine operators, waiters, druggists and teachers. The only explanation that Browning rejects outright is that the actions of Battalionand of all those who killed Jews in the Holocaust, were the result of some uniquely evil strain in the German psyche, springing from centuries of anti-Semitism as the core defining element of German culture. Christopher R. Even though Browning is writing as a scholar, with the intent of persuading through Christopher Browning, one of the better known Holocaust scholars today, used evidence from the post-war investigations of Police Battalion to create an image of the "ordinary men" who participated in the massacre of Jews in Eastern Europe. Parts of the skull flew into Sergeant Steinmetz's face. Marched into the forests, or driven into ditches, they were defenseless, naked, holding on to their children. We learn nothing much about them. Who rounded up these Jewish families from their little villages and marched them into the forests and gunned them down and then came back the next day and drove to a new village and did it all over again, week after week? When this book came out, init was widely acclaimed. Little is heard from them Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition much is evident. The Holocaust happened because people are horrible and capable of horrific things. This is not an easy read. None of the soldiers objected to serving on the Treblinka transports. And I realize I didn't break any new ground here but that's really why I love this so much. The author estimates that this single battalion transported 45, Jews to death camps an RPB consisted of men, almost all from Hamburg, who were conscripted into the German military at the beginning of WWII. Based on testimony given in the s the author draws out the way in which these men approached and dealt with the systematic murder of Jews in Poland. Also, it does debunk the often cited defence of war criminals that they had no choice. In the s, surviving members were interrogated about Holocaust crimes, and the testimony they provided forms the basis of this book. Browning starts off with this claim that he is going to analyze and explain why 'ordinary men' become Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition and I feel he really failed to do that. In a sobering conclusion, Browning suggests that these good Germans were acting less out of deference to authority or fear of punishment than from motives as insidious as they are common: careerism and peer pressure. The latter part of the book is devoted to a lengthy and somewhat repetitive summary and an argument the author is having with another author. You would have to hang several ordinary men that you are probably no better Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition. Battalion of the Order Police -- together with other Order Police battalions -- contributed to the manpower needed to carry out this immense task. The shooter then fired off a burst at these prone victims. Yet, so many have done what they have, not just in Nazi territory, that I don't know what else to call them. I would have been interested to read other guy's account and get both sides of the story, but if Browning's claims about his evidenciary use can be believed, I'm a bit afraid to be dragged into something I know is largely faked. The Men Who Pulled the Triggers

A second problem, closely related: although Browning admits fully that the vast majority of Police Battalion did not resist their orders to kill Jews, he spends most of his analysis focusing on the very small minority who did resist or who claimed to have resisted. Browning goes through each possibility. They took the same source information, those interviews for s investigations of war crimes, the same historical texts and came to some important differences. Battalion was sent into Poland to participate in a "special action. One of the books on my list is about women in Nazi Germany, but fundamentally, everyone in a position of power in Hitler's Germany was male. In addition, the gas chambers came back on line, and it Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition less stressful to stuff cattle cars, no matter how brutally this had to be done, than to do "neck shots. Paul Bryant's review says that it changed his life. Unusually well documented, the activities of these several hundred men are traced from month to month both from the written record and from their own testimonies. In my review of "Our Crime was Being Jewish" I said that the men and women who perpetrated the Holocaust should be hunted down and tried for these crimes until they take their last breath on earth. With its unflinching reconstruction of the battalion's murderous record and its painstaking attention to the social background and actions of individual men, this unique account offers some of the most powerful and disturbing evidence to date of the ordinary human capacity for extraordinary inhumanity. This was unacceptable, and a "Jew hunt" was instituted to solve this problem. If you want to ignore centuries of history and the present Shelves: history. They were sent to Poland to participate Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition , which included shooting en masse the Jews of entire small towns, such as Jozefow and Lomazy. It doesn't take an extraordinary man Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 1st edition do what they did. A far more likely one is that, again, as they were testifying to prosecutors, nobody wanted to damn himself by admitting Nazi sympathies. The often personal glimpses demonstrate the slow and methodical change in Nazi policy towards Jewish civilians, as the German leadership shifted towards the Final Solution. Let us not underestimate the power of peer pressure. It was supposed to be, so to speak, soothing to my conscience to release children unable to live. However, given that Eichmann spearheaded some of the key initiatives of the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, I have argued that he was quite extraordinary: extraordinarily sociopathic and evil. This book, a staple of for twenty- five years, has recently risen to fresh prominence due to repeated mentions of it by Canadian psychologist, and superstar, Jordan Peterson. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat service--workers, artisans, salesmen, and clerks. Each truckload was met by an equal number of policemen, who marched the Jews down a forest path. A good book to read along with Ron Rosenbaum's comparably excellent study Explaining Hitler. And the way back is closed, so we must choose one path forward. I'm a library wallah. Of course, I do so in the sense that I pay taxes and generally don't think all that much about the violence and criminality committed in my name. What was special about this battalion was not its composition, or its actions, which were roughly the same as several similar battalions. The Holocaust seems to be a case of 'willing executioners'. The battalion commander, Major , a year-old career policeman, clearly found these orders distasteful. Christopher R. The Jews were ordered to lie face down in a row; each policeman then placed his bayonet at the back of his Jew's neck and fired. In other words the closest thing to ordinary Germans. What put those poor victims in line? He later told his driver, "If this Jewish business is ever avenged on earth, then have mercy on us Germans. They could say to themselves, "Well, they deserved what they got.

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