Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher R. Browning)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Why Did Ordinary Men Become Killers of Innocence?
No example known in all the war of a soldier being punished for a refusal to murder civilians. Punishment of uninvolved family members for political offences was and is a left communist specialty, not used to any relevant degree by the national socialists. Browning seems to think that of these five, conformity was the key element but that any individual man's behavior cannot be isolated to one simple explanation. He points to the stanford prison experiment as evidence that average men can quickly become cruel and treat others into humanizing ways.
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