Ordinary Men

Ordinary Men—the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning explores the fine line between ordinary and evil as he explains how most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives: group dynamics, conformity, role adaptation, deference to authority, and the alteration of moral norms to justify their actions.