59 pages • 1 hour read
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
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How do Trapp’s actions, decisions, and explanations complicate the idea of choice throughout the book?
2.
In what ways do the men dehumanize their victims and to what extent are they dehumanized themselves by such behavior?
3.
Why is distance symbolically significant to the question of how the men were able to kill thousands of Jews?
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