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ISBN
9780062303028
Book Title
Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2017
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Christopher R. Browning
Features
Revised
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Europe / Western, Genocide & War Crimes, Violence in Society, Political Process / Political Parties, Jewish
Item Weight
10.3 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
384 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062303023
ISBN-13
9780062303028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227597752

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Europe / Western, Genocide & War Crimes, Violence in Society, Political Process / Political Parties, Jewish
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Author
Christopher R. Browning
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-446215
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A staggering and important book, a book that manages without polemic to communicate at least an intimation of the unthinkable." -- Chicago Tribune "Helps us understand, better than we did before, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen but also how they were transformed psychologically from the ordinary men of [the] title into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history." -- New York Times Book Review "It is the care with which Browning examines the evidence, as well as the soberness of his conclusions, that gives this work such power and impact." -- Kirkus Reviews "A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust." -- Newsweek, A staggering and important book, a book that manages without polemic to communicate at least an intimation of the unthinkable.
Dewey Decimal
940.5/318
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
"A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."--Newsweek Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews--now with a new afterword and additional photographs. 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 round-ups 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, rather, 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 this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit 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., "A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."-- Newsweek Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews--now with a new afterword and additional photographs. 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 round-ups 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, rather, 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 this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit 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.
LC Classification Number
D804.3.B77 2017

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  • by wilheff-95
    Aug 11, 2022

    got away from technical naming of officers and places and then got into the story for why I read it.

    almost unbelivable story and how most men became num to what they were ordered to do.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

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