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A Book Review of Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (by Jack Watt)

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Ordinary Men is regarded as seminal in Holocaust studies, as micro-history in its own right, and valuable for studying authoritarianism and indoctrination on individuals and collective groups. Tracing a single German unit, Reserve Police Battalion 101 (henceforth RPB-101) throughout their … Continue reading →

Is it possible to explain the motivations of Holocaust perpetrators? (by Valentin Boulan)

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Many Holocaust studies have focused not only on the victims, but also on perpetrators. This interest towards the Nazi killing machine is in many ways understandable. Firstly, because perpetrators can be seen as an opportunistic topic of study, for which … Continue reading →