false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176725021m/647492.jpg 647492 11 Shocking as it is, this book--a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller <I>Hitler's Willing Executioners</I>--gives evidence to suggest the opposite conclusion: that the sad-sack German draftees who perpetrated much of the Holocaust were not expressing some uniquely Germanic evil, but that they were average men comparable to the run of humanity, twisted by historical forces into inhuman shapes. Browning, a thorough historian who lets no one off the moral hook nor fails to weigh any contributing factor--cowardice, ideological indoctrination, loyalty to the battalion, and reluctance to force the others to bear more than their share of what each viewed as an excruciating duty--interviewed hundreds of the killers, who simply could not explain how they had sunken into savagery under Hitler. A good book to read along with Ron Rosenbaum's comparably excellent study <I>Explaining Hitler</I>. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 633637 1992 Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland total:526|5:138|4:237|3:128|2:20|1:3| 526 2065 717 70 5 1 false false Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 09:31:25 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 05:36:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Dec 07 16:55:15 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 17:00:29 -0800 2008 2-3 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon Sep 24 22:37:22 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 22:37:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 08:25:29 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 08:25:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 20 06:49:39 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 07:00:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jan 31 13:40:41 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 13:53:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Apr 19 09:43:55 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 09:45:46 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 12:16:10 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:17:33 -0700 2009
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