SABC meets on Wednesday, January 14th from 10:30 a.m. to noon to discuss Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning.
Christopher Browning is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Holocaust. His book Ordinary Men is the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings and roundups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in 1942. It argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but ordinary middle-aged men who committed these atrocities out of the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. While the book discusses a specific unit, its general argument is that most people are susceptible to the pressure of a group setting and committing actions they would never do of their own volition.
Email Thomas Trahey at ttrahey@mcdlibrary.org for more information about the book club.
The Social Awareness Book Club of the Mason County District Library is open to everyone!
