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Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is known for his work documenting the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing Nazi policies, and the use of survivor testimony. [1]
Two historians have written in detail of the March 1942 Józefów Massacre: Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen. In 1992, Browning wrote Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, which is an expanded work of his essay, "One Day in Józefów: Initiation to Mass Murder." This essay seeks to prove that the ...
Browning, Christopher R. (1998) [1992], "Arrival in Poland" (PDF), Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Penguin Books, pp. 1– 298, archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 7.91 MB complete) on 19 October 2013; Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah (2007) [1997].
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues collective guilt, that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries.
Browning, Christopher R. (1998). Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland (PDF). New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060995065. OCLC 847404688. Browning, Christopher R. (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution : The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942. Comprehensive History of the ...
Reserve Police Battalion 101 (German: Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 101) was a Nazi German paramilitary formation of the uniformed police force known as the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, Orpo), the organization formed by the Nazi unification of the civilian police forces in the country in 1936, placed under the leadership of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and grouped into battalions in 1939. [1]
The film takes a look at who these men were and how they were able to commit such crimes, what the few survivors reported and how they were able to escape the mass murder. Director Manfred Oldenburg traces the path of one of the murder battalions using written records, original documents, film footage and photos as well as scenic reconstructions.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born June 30, 1959) [1] is an American author, and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University.Goldhagen reached attention and broad criticism as the author of two books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996), described by topic expert Raul Hilberg as "worthless", and A Moral Reckoning (2002).