Kyle Harrison
to-read
Ordinary Men
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Author
- Christopher R. Browning
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 304
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Browning’s study of a single German reserve police battalion that murdered tens of thousands of Jews in Poland — built from postwar interrogation records to ask how ordinary, non-ideological men became killers, rather than assuming the answer was fanaticism.
Where I heard about it
- Unknown — saved to a personal reading list on 2026-10-18, alongside Humankind.
Connections
- Humankind — saved the same day; the two make an interesting pair on how ordinary people behave under pressure, from opposite conclusions.
Referenced in
- Humankind note