Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101, By Christopher Browning

When look at the various atrocities of history, it invariably us to think of the perpetrators as being different from normal people. When we think about them, immediately picture of stereotypical villains with no moral sensibility who indulge in killing innocent people for pleasure and thrills come in our mind. We think like this because we do not like to think perpetrators as humans as we are who were responsible for genocide. And no one had ever thought can normal human beings under the right circumstances, are capable of committing suicide? And the answer is yes, normal human beings can cause genocide and Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary men: Reserved Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland give a clear cut understanding
As author explains, it was here he first encountered the setting up of Reserve Police Battalion 101. Further, Browning describes the particular effect this establishment had on him. “Though I had been studying archived documents and Holocaust court record for nearly twenty years, the impact this indictment was extremely powerful and disturbing. Never Before had I seen the monstrous deeds of the Holocaust so starkly set side by side with the human face of the killers” (Browning, xvi). This made him to write the book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
However, this is not the surprising aspect of the briefing. After briefing about the task, the points meant to reassure that it was absolutely “okay” to kill these innocent men and women. Trapp, further says that “if any of the older men among them does not like to do the task can move out. This chapter leaves the reader in desperately knowing whether any of the men from the battalion stepped out from taking part in the genocide. I thought definitely people would have moved out avoiding to be responsible for execution of thousands of innocent people. But rather than knowing my answer, story moved to the second