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    Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

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    Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sources listed.

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    perhaps the most human look at many of the realities which took place in WWII as they involved the concentration camps and the power of Hitler and the Nazis. It  is a history book, but it is a history book that is unlike many others for it illustrates how many average, ordinary, men found themselves caught up in the middle  of one of the most horrifying events in the history of man. These ordinary men were not vicious and evil creatures, as many assume all involved were. Many of these  men that are portrayed are as simple and average as anyone we would meet. In the following paper we provide a brief and general review of Brownings book. Review  Browning begins his book with a very subtle, but clear, picture of the men that are involved in the history he will examine. "In the very early hours of July  13, 1942, the men of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were roused from their bunks in the large brick school building that served as their barracks in the Polish town  of Bilgoraj. They were middle-aged family men of working-and lower-middle-class background from the city of Hamburg" (Browning 1). These men were considered useless for real military duty and were recruited  having had no experience in warfare or in anything like what they would see. And, they had only been in Poland for 3 weeks and here they were near the  end of the war, being pushed into position in regards to the final solution of eliminating all prisoners. Browning then turns to illustrating how one man in charge, one  called endearingly, "Papa Trapp," had to tell the other men that there were being required to capture, and/or kill, Jewish individuals who were believed to be rebels. Browning indicates that 

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