The Holocaust In Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men

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Ordinary Men, written by Christopher Browning. Christopher Browning is american historian with a focus on the holocaust. Ordinary Men is a piece about the topic of what the Germans did during the holocaust and how it affected the men in the battalion but in a physiological way. Browning accurately portrays the men in this german battalion. The men he portrays are just normal men, drafted to participate in the war in some way. These men were all too old to go to battle so they had to find another job for them. They were drafted to be on a firing squad. They were told to round up the women, children, and elderly and execute them. 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. These were men who…show more content…
Through my personal research I thought that during the holocaust the Christians did very little to help out with the persecution of the Jews. “There were many Christians and Church leaders who endangered themselves in order to protect Jews. But many more supported and executed the Nazis' plans, and many did so in the name of Jesus and Christianity” (Judaism and Christianity: After the Holocaust). It seems that many people, especially Christians did a lot to help out with the Jews, but on the other side of the coin, some Christians helped out with the Nazis’ plans in the name of Christ. Even though the Nazis’ killed a lot of Christians during the holocaust as well, many of the Jews murderers we baptized followers of Christ (Judaism and Christianity: After the

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