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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher R. Browning)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Browning's Response to Goldhagen's Attack on Hitler

Browning scathingly dismisses goldhagen in terms quite aggress for an academic dispute. He distinguishes between german xenophobic anti semitism and much rarer chimeric or redemptive anti semitism found in true idea logues such as himler. In any case, browning is correct that the behavior of reserve police battalion one o one is not unique. It is, as peterson says, what all of us could become. Perhaps some of us might be the nonconformist, retroactively, in the right circumstances, baptized as heroes, but probably not.

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