Ordinary Men or Willing Executioners?

Nazis: Ordinary Men or Willing Executioners? Order Description 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.