Ordinary Men

One of the most devastating and frightening time-periods of our history was during the Second World War, when between five and six million Jewish civilians were killed throughout Europe in a mass genocide. A large portion of the Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler’s regime. However, thousands more of them were also put to death by the German Reserve Police Battalion 101. The members of the reserve police were middle-aged men who were …

…this group of people had evil intentions, and was out to destroy the world. Christopher R. Browning establishes a point in his book Ordinary Men, that we tend to think we are civilized, and that there are certain things we would never do. If we remain so overtly closed-minded as we are, there may come a point in time where we may engage in something so immoral as the events that occurred during the Holocaust.