Ordinary Men,9780060995065

Ordinary Men

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ISBN13: 9780060995065
ISBN10: 0060995068
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-16
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Incredible work  August 1, 2011
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This textbook is a rare combination of scholarly analysis and narrative style. It is equally good for the casual reader and serious student. The fact that Goldhagen lifted large portions of this book's narrative storyline should be an indication of how solid the research was. This information is a goldmine that Goldhagen stripmined for his own conclusions. Fortunately, Browning has a keen authorial voice and clearly draws his own conclusions on the culpability of Battalion 101. This is a rare, serious glimpse at the perpetrators of the Holocaust.


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Summary

This book is a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners--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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
xi(4)
Preface xv
1. ONE MORNING IN JOZEFOW
1(2)
2. THE ORDER POLICE
3(6)
3. THE ORDER POLICE AND THE FINAL SOLUTION: RUSSIA 1941
9(17)
4. THE ORDER POLICE AND THE FINAL SOLUTION: DEPORTATION
26(12)
5. RESERVE POLICE BATTALION 101
38(11)
6. ARRIVAL IN POLAND
49(6)
7. INITIATION TO MASS MURDER: THE JOZEFOW MASSACRE
55(16)
8. REFLECTIONS ON A MASSACRE
71(7)
9. LOMAZY: THE DESCENT OF SECOND COMPANY
78(10)
10. THE AUGUST DEPORTATIONS TO TREBLINKA
88(9)
11. LATE-SEPTEMBER SHOOTINGS
97(7)
12. THE DEPORTATIONS RESUME
104(10)
13. THE STRANGE HEALTH OF CAPTAIN HOFFMANN
114(7)
14. THE "JEW HUNT"
121(12)
15. THE LAST MASSACRES: "HARVEST FESTIVAL"
133(10)
16. AFTERMATH
143(4)
17. GERMANS, POLES, AND JEWS
147(12)
18. ORDINARY MEN
159(32)
Afterword 191(34)
Appendix: Shootings and Deportations by Reserve Police Battalion 101 225(2)
Notes 227(32)
Index 259

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