59 pages 1 hour read

Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

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Essay Topics

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How do Trapp’s actions, decisions, and explanations complicate the idea of choice throughout the book?

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In what ways do the men dehumanize their victims and to what extent are they dehumanized themselves by such behavior?

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Why is distance symbolically significant to the question of how the men were able to kill thousands of Jews?

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