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Ordinary Men

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HarperCollins, Feb 5, 1993 - History - 304 pages
The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
  

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This is an incredible insight and very well written. - Goodreads
Excellent research, painstakingly laid out. - Goodreads
It was well-researched. - Goodreads
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However, the writing left much to be desired. - Goodreads
Academia moves at a glacial pace. - Goodreads

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

User Review  - Julianne Legge - Goodreads

It does not answer the question. Well, it does, but it doesn't. I cannot expound on this without including spoilers. So just keep one eye open for the the answer to Browning's question; you will see ... Read full review

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

User Review  - Gretchen - Goodreads

This book wasn't pleasant to read, but it was necessary. Humans are the scariest species on earth. Read full review

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Contents

ONE MORNING IN J6zEF6w
1
DEPORTATION
26
RESERVE POLICE BATTALION 101
38
ARRIVAL IN POLAND
49
REFLECTIONS ON A MASSACRE
71
THE DESCENT OF SECOND COMPANY
78
THE AUGUST DEPORTATIONS TO TREBLINKA
88
THE DEPORTATIONS RESUME
104
THE JEW HUNT
121
AFTERMATH
143
ORDINARY MEN 259
159
Reserve Police Battalion 101
225
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About the author (1993)

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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