Author Christopher Browning - 867 Words

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christopher Browning is a historian on the holocaust and Nazi Germany. He is the Frank Porter Graham distinguished professor of history at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. THE SUMMARY: Ordinary men take place during the summer of 1942 in the polish village of Jozefow. The book tells us the story of normal working family men of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 who were commission into carrying out horrific crimes and mass killings on Polish Jews. The main characters in the book are, Captain Wolfgan Haoffmann and Julius Wohlauf, Lieutennat Hartwig Gnade and Major Wilheln Trapp who was known by his men as â€Å"Papa Trapp† he is the commander of the Reserve 101 and was a protector for his men. The members were from a variety of ages and different walks of life they also weren’t representative of the model of Nazis. Their journey through the horrific orders and the circumstances they faced upon their return to domestic life. THE SOURCES: A. Primary sources: 1. Sergeant Toni Nentheim, description of the march of Jews. Browning, p. 81) 2. Walter Zimmermann makes distinctions between large and small executions. (Browning, p. 128) 3. Adolf Bittner’s opposition to the battalion’s jewish actions. (Browning, p. 129) B. Secondary sources: 1. Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews (Browning, p. xvi) 2. Nechama Tec. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. (Browning, p.71) 3. John Dower, War WithoutShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Book Ordinary Men Essay1815 Words   |  8 Pagesrobots under Hitler’s command, and nothing else. While reading this book I began to realize that these people were living human beings too, that at first felt disgusted by what they were instructed to do too and that’s what I think the author, Christopher Browning, was trying to do. He is saying that these men were just regular people that were trained to kill and that if we’re not aware of this phenomena that it could happen again. The Order Police began after World War I. Germany wasRead MoreOrdinary Men Book Review Essay976 Words   |  4 PagesOrdinary Men Christopher Browning describes how the Reserve Police Battalion 101, like the rest of German society, was immersed in a flood of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. Browning describes how the Order Police provided indoctrination both in basic training and as an ongoing practice within each unit. Many of the members were not prepared for the killing of Jews. The author examines the reasons some of the police members did not shoot. The physiological effect of isolation, rejection, andRead MoreChristopher Browning s Ordinary Men1241 Words   |  5 PagesChristopher Browning is an American historian whose research mainly focuses on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Browning has been teaching about this specific field for thirty years, since 1974. He has published many different notable books in regards to Nazi Germany and the events that occurred during the time of the Holocaust. Some of the books written by Browning are, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp (2010), The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978), and NaziRead MoreWas German ‘Eliminationist Anti-Semitism Responsible for the Holocaust?832 Words   |  3 PagesNazi Party, played a vast role in the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust . Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of â€Å"The Paradigm Challenged,† believes that it did; and argues quite convincingly that ordinary German citizens were duplicitous either by their actions or inactions due to the deep-seeded nature of anti-Semitic sentiment in the country. On the other hand, Christopher R. Browning, who has extensively researched the Holocaust, argues that the arguments of Goldhagen leaves out significantRead MoreIncident by Countee Cullen1369 Words   |  5 PagesThe poem, â€Å"Incident† is a part of Cullens book called Color, which clearly portrays the racism shown among the blacks, even among the children. The transition from innocence to experience may also be seen in the poem My Last Duchess b y Robert Browning. It starts off with the innocence of a young child most likely riding on a subway who makes eye contact with another young boy on the same car. Though neither is described to be older or smaller than the other boy. Cullen goes on to say that fromRead More Ordinary Men by Browning Essay1630 Words   |  7 PagesOrdinary Men by Browning The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in. The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalionRead MoreOrdinary Men2572 Words   |  11 PagesThe arguments that Christopher Browning emphasizes in Ordinary Men are based on his beliefs about the Holocaust. His argument touches base on the idea that regular citizens of Germany could commit such horrible acts without being coerced into doing so. He examines the side of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and tries to figure out just why these gentlemen participated in the mass shootings and deportations of the Holocaust. In fact should these gentlemen even be called gentlemen enlight ofRead MoreEssay on The Four Periods of Literature1518 Words   |  7 Pagesperhaps some of the oldest communication methods used. There are four major literary time periods, the values of each of these, and their authors will be discussed. The first time period is authors who rejoiced in the basic joys of life. The next period saw authors realizing that life is short and must be enjoyed to the fullest. The third period influenced authors to begin taking new roads and creating literature that had never before existed. The fourth and final period in the discussion, men beganRead MoreCompare the way Goldhagen and Browning present the perpetrators of the Holocaust2061 Words   |  9 Pagesargument is the presentation of the perpetrators of the Holocaust as ordinary Germans who largely, willingly took part in the atrocities because of deeply held and violently strong anti-Semitic beliefs. This in many ways challenged earlier works like Christopher Browning’s â€Å"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland† which arguably gives a more complex explanation for the motives of the perpetrators placing the emphasis on circumstance and pressure to conform. These differingRead MoreHy3 Personal Sources Pack1122 Words   |  5 Pagescontamination w ill not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst. (Applause) Document No. 10 http://www.awesomestories.com/history/holocaust-evidence/hitlers-predictions. Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D. On October 25, 1941, Erhard Wetzel wrote to Heinrich Lohse recommending that the head of the euthanasia program (for killing mentally and physically handicapped Germans) should build gassing devices to eliminate the Jews.