Christopher Browning, a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University, wrote a book focusing on the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland and named it Ordinary Men. Browning states the historical problems he hopes to solve with his book "the fundamental problem is to explain why ordinary men- shaped by a culture that had its own particularities but was nonetheless within the mainstream of western, Christian, and Enlightenment traditions - under specific circumstances
From two different perspectives, Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, and Christopher Browning, a historian of the German perpetrators, have different prospectives of the Germans who were involved in the Holocaust. Wiesel’s Night focuses on the story of an actual survivor and his journey, where as Browning’s Ordinary Men focuses on the German Order Police from judicial interrogations. Both books depict how each party is mentally and physically ruined from the Holocaust and the encounters they endure
Murders inflicted upon the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, that some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of the Jewish prisoners as well as the officers during the early 1940’s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking to an abnormal twisted headache. In the books Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that the Jewish prisoners as well as the police
JONAH FOUCHé Grade 12-M History - RESEARCH TASK Question/Topic How does the documentary film The Legacy of Jedwabne (2005) blur the boundary between the killing fields of Jedwabne and the bureaucracy of Nazi Germany, thereby shifting the identity of both victim and perpetrator? 16.2 1. Introduction to Essay 2. Sources 3. Summary of Sources 20.4 1. Revised Introduction 2. Detailed Sources 3. Evaluation of Sources 18.6 1. Revised Introduction 2. Detailed Sources 3. Evaluation of Sources 4. Processing