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Publication Facts
Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning
Date of Original Publication: 1992
Analysis
What is this book about? What happens in it? (Please limit your answer to seven sentences or less.)
Ordinary Men is a book about 450 men of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 who were ordered to enter the village of Jozefow and select several hundred men for the work camp and then kill the reset of the inhabitants. Christopher Browning asks what kind of men would carry out such a horrible task and he finds that these men are simply, "ordinary men". These men were elderly, poorly educated, and came from a lower end of society. This book gives an account of how the "ordinary men" who made up the battalion took part in the merciless killings of thousands of Jews. It also provides graphic details of the shootings as well as individual reactions of the Policemen. The accounts are told from the point of view of the perpetrators which gives a unique perspective to the Holocaust...