The Danger of the Ordinary In Ordinary Men, the author Christopher Browning asserts that the members of the Nazi Police Battalion 101 were ordinary men prior to becoming the ruthless killers that fueled the violent extermination of the Jews. This assertion is frightening because if true, people like us, which believe such actions to be only possible by abnormal men, are made no different than the Nazis and repeats of such horrific events are made less unfathomable. The closest way to test such hypothetical assertions is through social experimentation, in which volunteers go through experiments that emulate the respective situations being recreated. Through the analysis of two psychological studies, Stanley Milgram’s experiment in 1961 and
But what good is intelligence if it’s not accurate (423)? Torturing a prisoner does not guarantee accurate information. The person being tortured can easily give false and misleading information. McCain himself gave false information when he was a prisoner, refusing to put his comrades in harm’s way. In fact, when questioned about the names of his flight squadron members, and he gave the Vietnamese names of the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers (423).
The reason behind this being because of the fact that if it weren’t for the selfless commitment that the volunteers the public services would not be able to function anywhere near as effectively as it does today. There are many reasons for this some of these being the fact that the volunteers that work for the public services provide individual expertise to the table, they free up more time for the regular servicemen and women, they provide an extra set of hands when staff numbers fall short of to fill in the gaps of vacant or absent regular servicemen and women and they also bring new ideas and innovative thinking to that particular service. Expertise- volunteers in the public services bring many things to the table, one of these things is that they provide the public services and the community with their individual expertise. The reason for this is that the volunteers that are supporting the public services may have different types of expertise that they can use to lighten the payload a little for the regular servicemen and women. Another reason for this is because of the fact that they could provide life lessons and knowledge from past experiences and use it to benefit that particular public
OJ had written a book called "If I did It" Where he lays out how he would have committed the murder. Why would anyone even want to write a book about the crime if you really had nothing to do with it? Simpson is protected by double jeopardy, he can't be put on trial for the crime again. He pretty much confessed everything about the crime in the book, but the cops can’t do anything about it now. The problem that made the prosecution lose the case was the fact that the police mismanaged the evidence and made the jury have enough doubt not to convict OJ
Source 15 (people’s judgements of Haig) tells us of historian Sir Llewellyn Woodward’s opinion of Haig’s strategies, “Our high command had not advanced beyond the tactics of the Stone Age. They could not think of any other form of warfare, except to throw into battle large numbers of men, month after month.” This quote could be biased as it is not written by a witness nor is it a fact, however, you can cross-reference this with the view from Field Marshall Montgomery who was a chief for Britain’s army “Haig was unimaginative and dull.” Some share the view that Haig is the Butcher of the Somme because of his over optimistic attack and his unwillingness to change his out-of-date, useless tactics which were clearly causing the deaths and suffering of a large group of men. An argument against Haig being the emotionless and unsympathetic ‘Butcher of the Somme’ is that he was acting as a professional and obedient soldier, who, like his men, was taking orders from a higher authority and was attempting to listen to military advice. A great deal of pressure was on Haig by both the French and British government, for the attack to be
‘Hitler alone was responsible for the Holocaust’ do you agree? 24 marks There is a lot of different views on who was responsible for the Holocaust, Hitler being one and also all the people involved behind him. So on the one hand I do not agree with this statement because there was number of people who helped towards the Holocaust such as the SS. The Holocaust was mainly an SS operation as they was the ones who ran everything, like the Concentration camps, Extermination camps, the ghettos, the SS was also the doctors that chose who lived and died when they arrived to camps, Eichmann was also a key man in the Holocaust as he was the man who sorted out transport, without him sorting this out then the victims would of never of got to where they was going, and also because he used cattle carts to make them travel, they would not have been able to transport the mass amount of people they did. The SS was also the only ones who put the gas into the chambers, so they was the people who was actually killing the victims and also they lined people up in front of a ditch and shoot them, so they was physically killing people.
They were told to execute them because according to Hitler, anyone that isn’t German is a Jew and as we all know Hitler disliked Jews. Also they just did not kill the Jews, but they had a very big role in deporting them for eastern and western Europe to the Germans concentration camp. Browning portrays these men as ordinary men. This group of men consisted mostly of working class, middle aged men from Hamburg. These men all went through their formative period before the Nazis came into power.
Jasmine Chacko October 3, 2012 X02638963 Honors Philosophy Man’s Search for Meaning By: Viktor E. Frankl Unlike most books I’ve read about the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning focuses not on how or why people in the concentration camps died but why they were able to survive such horrors. Through Frankl’s analysis of his own experiences as well as those of Jews around him, it is evident that the search for meaning is a mystery. It is internal to the self, thereby making it something that only the individual can reflect on. Furthermore, it has no final answer yet keeps the individual in a state of awe and wonder. Frankl focuses on the intriguing idea that everything can be taken way from an individual except for their willpower.
Indeed, before the incarceration of known communists following the Reichstag fire, the Nazi party had merely a plurality in the government. For several reasons, most extermination camps were built in occupied Poland, which had the greatest European Jewish populace. This allowed the Nazis to, at least initially, keep the camps relatively secret from the majority of the German
The Necessity of Accommodating Workforce Diversity Abstract Accommodating workforce diversity can no longer be seen as a luxury. Because of this companies must now balance different types of diversities in order to keep employees happy and the company functioning. Age is not the only diversity within the workplace, but now cultural differences such as race, religion and personal beliefs also play a bigger part. For many companies, accommodating workforce diversity is a task that needs to be carried out through all levels of the company in order to be successful. With globalization becoming ever present within most companies, diversity can no longer be considered a luxury.