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Ordinary Men

by Christopher R. Browning

  • FINISHED
  • Finished September 2018
  • First published 1992

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Follows a German reserve police battalion that shot tens of thousands of Polish Jews in 1942.   Browning argues that peer pressure and conformity, more than fanatical belief, turned middle-aged family men into killers.

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