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    Just finished Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

    A profoundly disturbing book, nuanced and very educational as to the sociology of killing and genocide.
    I agree with your review, perhaps his rather recent lecture about 'Revisiting the perpetrators' might interest you. Never knew about the incredible story* of the jewish eye-witness inside a killing unit, serving as a translator. Starts at 51:00.

    *Reflecting on it, of those who had not incredible luck, almost all didn't have a chance to tell us their tale.
    Last edited by Firn; 06-04-2014 at 05:56 PM.
    ... "We need officers capable of following systematically the path of logical argument to its conclusion, with disciplined intellect, strong in character and nerve to execute what the intellect dictates"

    General Ludwig Beck (1880-1944);
    Speech at the Kriegsakademie, 1935

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