Book Review - Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning In Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning attempts to answer two questions about the Holocaust in Poland; how the Nazis organized and carried out the destruction of Poland's Jewish population, and where they found the manpower necessary to carry out their evil. Browning bases his book on the testimonies of the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, which was a unit of the German Order Police. These testimonies come …
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…members of the Police Order, mainly because little such information is available. While Browning does spend time exploring the possible societal causes of "Ordinary Men" becoming cold-blooded killers, the book is mainly a narrative of the events which actually occurred in Poland during 1942 and 43. It is a microscopic look into a horrifying whole, and as such is a good historical source for those interested in how the Nazi's accomplished their goal of a "Judenfrei" Poland.