{"product_id":"ordinary-men-reserve-police-battalion-101-and-the-final-solution-in-poland","title":"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúA remarkable‚Äîand singularly chilling‚Äîglimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.\"‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChristopher R. Browning‚Äôs shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews‚Äînow with a new afterword and additional photographs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrdinary Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of  RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrdinary Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120165949725,"sku":"9780062303028","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780062303028.jpg?v=1751399486","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/ordinary-men-reserve-police-battalion-101-and-the-final-solution-in-poland","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}