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9 Reddit comments about Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland:

u/phaedrusTHEghost · 9 pointsr/politics

Sheesh, I know what you mean about the depressing information. Everything I'm taking this semester is depressing: Anthro, Environmental Sociology x2. Hopefully, the supposed checks and balances within the political, and legal system prove to do their job and we can get back on track to attempting to figure a solution to our infinite consumption economics.

Is this the book you referred to?

u/Chocolate_Cookie · 2 pointsr/ShitWehraboosSay

You might appreciate reading Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning.

One of the issues the Nazis faced trying to efficiently murder several million people was one of manpower. To help with this they utilized Order Police battalions across Poland as shooters and guards for mass executions and later to hunt, collect, and deliver Jews to the Operation Reinhard death camps. This book is a study of one of these battalions that delves into the difficult area of motivation.

One thing that is made very plain is that some members of the Order Police flatly refused to participate in the mass shootings, and the worst that happened to them, from their perspective, was they were shunned socially, called "unmanly," and didn't get promotions.

u/PalRob · 2 pointsr/KotakuInAction

To be fair, some books are REALLY fucked up and I think it is reasonable to provide some warning so the reader can make informed decision. I've read Ordinary Men and many scenes from the book are still vivid in my memory more than two years later.

u/bsasson · 2 pointsr/news

I don't agree with the basic premise and don't trust those that push it, nothing political at all. In terms of resistance to genocide (which is not what's currently discussed here), figure 10%-15% against and the same number enthusiasticly participating, with the rest following along doing what they are told (source: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G1F0F84)

u/mnemosyne-0002 · 1 pointr/KotakuInAction

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u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/Damnthatsinteresting

Some people definitely need killing but there is danger in objectifying people, even the worst Nazis.

This book explains how average Joe's were turned into Nazi killers:

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

u/jimibulgin · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

> they don't fight for their country, but for the person beside them.

Yeah, well, that is the basic premise of this book.

u/beatkid · 1 pointr/politics

The interesting thing about the holocaust, especially in Poland, is that all the senseless killing was the culmination of centuries of racial prejudice. Non-Jewish Poles were greenlit to take life and property in the same way white Georgians were during Andrew Jackson's tenure in America. The point is, Hitler didn't wave a magical wand to make people start murdering. Nor did he send in droves of SS agents to conduct slaughter. Much of the killing occurred organically.

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