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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning β€” book cover

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning
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Overview

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

Synopsis

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

New York Times Book Review

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.

About the Author, Christopher R. Browning

Christopher R. Browning is professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is a contributor to Yad Vashem's official twenty-four-volume history of the Holocaust and the author of two earlier books on the subject.

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Editorials

Andrew Nagorski

A remarkableβ€”and singularly chillingβ€”glimpse of human behavior...This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust. β€”Newsweek

Michael Dorris

A staggering and important book, a book that manages without polemic to communicate at least an intimation of the unthinkable. β€” Chicago Tribune

New York Times Book Review

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

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.

Book Details

Published
March 1, 1993
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780060995065

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