Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men

The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Germany. Aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945. In which this happened there were many bystanders that would do anything at all to help the Jews or the others taken by Nazis. In addition, the bystanders also thought very different of the world the Jews were sent to. Moreover, because of this I agree with the following statement. Does this mean that being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen.

To place this definition under a different light, I ask you to think of an apple hanging in a tree and ask yourself, why does it fall? Is it the weakening of the stem, its growing weight and the forces of gravity, or could it be the breeze which breaks its stem? However, regardless of the cause, the apple will inevitably fall. When applied to the events of the holocaust this analogy accurately explains the effects of social conditioning, as Germany experienced numerous events such as the treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression which inevitably lead to the horrors of 1939 to

The Holocaust was one of the most devastating times for all of the world. It strained the world’s economy and resources; death tolls were tremendously high and injuries were severe. This was one of the worst events in our world’s history.

The Holocaust was a horrific tragedy which started in January of 1933 and ended in May of 1945, the Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people. The word was derived from the Greek word that meant Sacrifice to the Gods (Steele 7), also called the Shoan which is the Hebrew word for catastrophe (Steele 7). So many countries took place in this 12-year genocide, including, “Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, which were also known as the Axis Powers” (Steele 34). But, although there were all those countries they were all part of one larger group called the Nazis, were the ones who were killing all the different denominations of people. (Bachrach 58). All of this led to the gigantic catastrophe called the Holocaust. The

Of outbreaks of violence that survived into historical records, Germany’s Holocaust and China’s Cultural Revolution were the most talked about and heavily studied. They are poignant reminders of human’s capacity for destruction. How are the two alike? And how do they differ? The eassay below inquired into this thesis and helped unearth the conditions that provided fertile soil and generated momentum for these atrocities.

Christopher Browning documents everyday experiences and tribulations of Germany men, who were involved in the tragic events of the Holocaust. Browning tries illustrate the reasoning of all the massacres caused by the Reserve Police Battalion 101, so that people could get a clear understanding of what really was going on with these men, physically and mentally. Looking past all the opposing claims of German men, Browning explains how these men were just regular “middle aged family men” who were taking basic orders from higher authorities (1). Throughout the book Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning explains his reasoning of calling these murders ordinary men, the reasoning behind all the massacres, and how these men later on became killers.

The Holocaust is the most recognized genocide in modern history, claiming millions of innocent lives, and indiscriminately destroying the livelihood of everybody opposed to the monstrous Nazi party, regardless of whether or not you were of the blonde haired, blue eyed Aryan race that Adolf Hitler had sought to create. Naturally, with the dark tide of oppression, came resistance from the oppressed themselves, the Jewish partisans. This resistance group was formed from the many thousands of the threatened European Jewish, and whether or not they were escapees or the inhabitants of ghettos, deportation camps, and death camps hardly mattered when it it came down to their purpose, aiding their people both physically and spiritually. The Jewish partisan

What made the Holocaust such a memorable event? Why does it stand out from every other atrocious event in world history? In order to get a clear answer to these questions, we must first go over what exactly the Holocaust was. In the book Understanding The Holocaust, author George Feldman gives a very clear description of the Holocaust. He states that "A 'holocaust' is the total destruction of something, as when a terrible fire consumes everything in its path". The Holocaust continues to shape our history to this day.

The Holocaust, meaning ‘sacrifice by fire’ (3), was a time in which mass murders were conducted by the Nazi Party. At this time, many of the Nazi’s policies were targeted towards the Jews as they were believed to be the reason that Germany lost the First World War and Hitler stated that ‘the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew’ (3). During the Holocaust the Nazi Party not only targeted the Jews but they also targeted the Polish population, Prisoners of War, disabled people and Jehovah’s witnesses and many more. ‘The Holocaust wiped out many of the most educated and productive people in western Russia’ said by James A. Robinson (5). As a result of this segment of World War Two, the Jewish

Of those men and women incarcerated for murder, how many have been converted from “ordinary men” into killers? What circumstances did it take from carrying out tasks similar to those of Reserve Police Battalion 101? However disturbing this issue is, another part of human nature allows for us to exist in the world, and to experience joy and kindness. Perhaps accepting the possibility that maybe we all carry a little monstrosity inside could even be the first step to avoiding more

Moreover, people are described through the use of similes, “... Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.” (Shelley, 104). In the wake of a murder, people start to act like monsters. They blindly vouch for violence without thinking the whole

After the Holocaust ended, the Declaration of Human Rights were created. They stated that all humans are born free, they have the right to fair trial, have the right to nationality and have the right to leave the country and apply for refugee.

In the panoramic picture of the 20th century, it is difficult to opine a certain factor as the most significant. The true interpretation of the word ‘’significance’’ lies in ‘’meaningfulness’’ , which is far beyond the extent of proportion or popularity. Different people have myriad perceptions of the greatest influence, the sheerest savagery or the brightest scene in a panorama fraught with bloody wars and high mortality rate but also depicts the density of scientific breakthroughs. However, as a global citizen, I believe those events have its root in the human rights problems. Mankind discriminate other human races, whereby our previous generations declare war against each other. Then we reduce polarization, thus giving rise to full-scale and multinational developments these days. The Holocaust, in the course of this essay, will elucidate my viewpoint.

“Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood,” (Haidt). The holocaust is known as one of the worst mass genocides in history. So many people lost their lives during this tragedy, and many had not only physical scars, but mental scar as well. Through this devastating period there were parks of light, and one of those sparks was Oskar Schindler. Schindler put his life on the line for his workers, and tried his best to save as may as he could. Through the ages we see people like Schindler manifest in different way, for instance Dr Martin Luther King Jr, who tried to stop the oppression of African-Americans during his time, an action that