Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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- Feb 1, 1992
- #WorldWar2 #History #Mentalhealth
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 a...
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Number of Pages: 271
ISBN: 0060995068
ISBN-13: 9780060995065
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jul 30, 2023
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"Both Hitler and various military commanders made the coercive zero-sum moral argument that pity and lenience toward the enemy and failure to overcome one's personal scruples was a "sin" against one's comrades and future generations. The combination of all these factors created a "competition for mercilessness" and a "culture of brutality" within units.
Thus "uncertainty and dissenting convictions seethed in the culture of cruelty," and "pangs of conscience" persisted."
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Moshe Rosenstein @RosensteinMoshe
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Nov 13, 2022
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It is an incredible book.
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jul 30, 2023
Alex Brass @ExceedPotential
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Nov 13, 2022
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Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning . Although it did kinda cause me to ‘lose my mind’ after I read it and had to grapple with some sad realities of the world, holocaust, & human nature. Has changed my perspective in immensely positive way in the long term tho