Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- ISBN-10
- 0141000422
- ISBN-13
- 9780141000428
- Series
- Ordinary Men
- Category
- Germany
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Group(CA)
- Author
- Christopher R. Browning
Description
Widely reviewed and read in hardcover, this is the shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. "Browning tells us about such Germans and helps us understand . . . how they were transformed psychologically . . . into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history".--New York Times Book Review, front page. 8 pages of photos; 2 maps.
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