Our scorn should be towards those who demand our obedience and split America into an in-group and an out-group. Be like the 10-20% of Battalion 101 who didnвЂ™t conform. In one of the most instructive books about Nazi Germany, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.

Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class. Ordinary Men 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. Everywhere society conditions people to respect and defer to authority, and indeed could scarcely function otherwise. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the siege mentality of war or threat of war. 'The collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. Browning delves into this aspect of the Holocaust in Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.Like many other such battalions, Police Battalion 101 was organized for the purpose of policing and pacifying territories captured by the advancing German during the early years of the war in the east. Sources:Browning, Christopher R., Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, New York, Harper Collins, 1992, pp.xv-xvii 3.

Reserve Police Battalion 101 was a unit of the German Order Police that during.

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