"Ordinary Men" or "Ideological Soldiers"? Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942

Westermann, Edward B.

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“…The claims made about the reserve policemen provoked an immediate challenge, and indeed the historiography of perpetration in the Holocaust has remained polarized ever since (Westermann, ). In 1996, the young American social scientist, Daniel Goldhagen, published Hitler's Willing Executioners , centered around a study of the same reserve police battalion that Browning had studied, but arriving at radically different conclusions.…”

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“Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust

Overy

2014

Journal of Social Issues

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For historians the Holocaust is among the most complex historical situations inFor historians the Holocaust is among the most complex historical situations in which to try to explain perpetrator behavior. This is partly because the Holocaust differs from other forms of mass killing because of its long-term, systematic, and controlled nature, and partly because the number of men (no women were actually involved in carrying out the face-to-face killing) who played a direct part in the genocide was very great, suggesting that any analysis of why they behaved the way they did must rely on a variety of explanations rather than a generic core (Lower, 2013). The most difficult methodological problem lies in the nature of the evidence. Much of the work on reconstructing the motivation of perpetrators in the Holocaust has relied on cross-examination material taken from participants

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“Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust

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2014

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Soziologische Analysen Des Holocaust

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The Clean Wehrmacht, the War of Extermination, and Beyond

Shepherd

2009

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This article surveys recent research on the German Wehrmacht's anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. German anti-partisan warfare in the Soviet Union was conducted not just against partisans, but also as cover for annihilating the Reich's ‘ideological enemies’ and plundering ‘bandit areas’ for resources. The Wehrmacht's role was significant, constituting an important element of its wider participation in Nazi crimes. The review sketches the historical background and surveys the historiography's development to the late 1990s. It then examines at length the significant works that have emerged since, dividing them according to the operational levels on which they focus: higher command, individual regions, and, finally, middle-level units.

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"Ordinary Men" or "Ideological Soldiers"? Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942

Cited by 11 publications

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“Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust

“Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust

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The Clean Wehrmacht, the War of Extermination, and Beyond

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