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Ordinary Men
by Christopher R. Browning
Reserve Police Battalion 101: middle-aged Hamburg men who became mass murderers in Poland, and why most did not refuse when they could. The essential study of complicity.
Read it if…
you want to understand how ordinary people do evil.
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Skip it if…
you want heroes.
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Three things you will actually use
- Conformity kills.
- Refusal was possible.
- Ask what you would do.
Do this first
Read the chapter on Józefów.
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Browning's ordinary men.
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