Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland

This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history.