Nazis: Ordinary Men or Willing Executioners?

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Note from Professor: The goаl of the рaper is first of all to give a balanсed account of different arguments with respect to crucial issues in the history of the
Holocaust. It is not to be an essay, defending a thesis, but a research paper, investigating a question. The debate you address is the one between Goldhagen and
Browning. The issue in this debate is not exactly how you describe it. Goldhagen argues that the members of Police battalion 101 were influenced by an eliminationist
antisemitism, as a result of which they were convinced Jews were a danger and needed to be annihilated. So they were evil yet as a result of an antisemitical culture –
combining both aspects of the question you introduce at the beginning of your outline. Browning presents situational arguments to explain the atrocities of police
battalion 101 – focusing on group pressure, conformism and the obligation felt towards fellow soldiers and the commanders.
So if you want to write a paper on this topic, you should, after introducing the question, discuss first of all what the police were and did, that are discussed by
Goldhagen and Browning, is some historical detail: when, where, in what context were they active, what was their composition, what were their actions, what was the
result of these actions? After that you can discuss the explanations of Goldhagen and Browning: what is the material they present in support of their interpretation?
Do the sources you have at your disposal confirm or problematize any or maybe all of their observations? Are there perhaps other interpretations available in the texts
of Edward Westermann, Michael Mann, Richard Evans, or Peter Hayes – all text in the required or recommended readings in which this theme is discussed? Only after
careful evaluating these text, can you come to a conclusion in which you formulate you own answer to the question “‘ordinary men’ or ‘willing executioners’?”. 8 pages.