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

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

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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Author: Christopher R. Browning
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-03-17
ISBN: 0060995068
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: A very carefully researched and written book
Summary: 5 Stars

The thesis is darkness lurks in the hearts of men. But I'm not sure it is that much. Remember the comment about the Nazis--the "banality of evil." Reserve Police Batallion 101 fits the definition. Evil isn't interesting. In that sense it isn't even evil. It is simply cruel, stupid, monstrous without insight or knowlege. As interesting and as evil as a meat grinder. But the Jews were the meat, and the men of the police batallion were the motor that ran the grinder. Some of the reviews compare the German policemen to the Americans against the Japanese in WWII or in Viet Nam. Big difference, I would say, between a caculated, deliberate plan to exterminate a race, men, women, children, virtually all non-combatants, and ferocity in war against an armed enemy.

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