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Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning
In the early hours of July 13, 1942, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of the German Order Police, entered the Polish Village of Jozefow. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat service--workers, artisans, sal...
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Tim highlighted the book as a notable work while discussing historical accounts of ordinary individuals becoming perpetrators.
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There's also a great book called Ordinary Men.
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Episode: 372. The Fight Against Worldwide Child Slavery & t...
Tim highlighted the book as a notable work while discussing historical accounts of ordinary individuals becoming perpetrators.
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There's also a great book called Ordinary Men.
Episode: 200. Exploring the Pareto Principle
It was mentioned as a book Jordan was rereading, about a police battalion in Poland who were trained to commit horrible acts.
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I was just rereading Ordinary Men and it was a story about a police battalion in Poland that trained ordinary policemen to take naked pregnant women out into the fields and and shoot them in the back of the head.
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Behind the Bastards
It was discussed as one of the worst books about the Holocaust ever written, specifically for its use of Nazi race science, which was deemed unnecessary.
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I think I've ever read called Hitler's willing executioners.
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Episode: Part Two: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage
It was discussed as one of the worst books about the Holocaust ever written, specifically for its use of Nazi race science, which was deemed unnecessary.
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I think I've ever read called Hitler's willing executioners.
He hits the Nazis with their own race science.
Episode: Part Two: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage
It was discussed as one of the worst books on the Holocaust ever written, in a negative context, but also as a good source for understanding how ordinary people participated in atrocities.
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I think I've ever read called Hitler's willing executioners.
He hits the Nazis with their own race science.
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The Rubin Report
The host highlighted the title as a terrifying account of how ordinary policemen were transformed into perpetrators of atrocities, emphasizing the incremental steps that lead to evil. It was repeatedly suggested as essential reading to understand how authoritarianism and censorship can develop gradually, with the host noting he had even ordered it. The recommendation came from Dave Rubin and was echoed by Jordan Peterson, reflecting a strong endorsement.
Episode: Jordan Peterson Loses His Cool When Destiny Refuse...
It was described as a horrifying book about the process of how ordinary men become evil through incremental steps, being pushed and tested to see what they are willing to put up with.
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If anybody's interested in this sort of process and this is a horrifying book if you want to read about how this process works you can read a book called ordinary men by Robert Browning okay you get it and the point is ordinary men don't become evil overnight they're pushed they're tested you see what you're willing to put up with and that eventually they take a few more of your rights or they inject you with this or whatever it might be so now let's connect that to largely what's happening in the world right now
Episode: Douglas Murray Says What Everyone Is Afraid to Adm...
This book details the transformation of ordinary German policemen into perpetrators of atrocities in Poland during World War II, illustrating how seemingly average individuals can commit horrific acts under certain circumstances. It was described as a terrifying book.
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There's a great book about that, it's a terrifying book called Ordinary Men.
And it's about the initiation of a police battalion from Germany who went to Poland after the Germans marched into Poland. Now, these were ordinary men. They were policemen, middle-aged, who had grown up before the Nazi propaganda mill got going.
By the end of this, which took months, these guys were taking naked pregnant women out into the middle of fields and shooting them in the back of the head.
Episode: Do Latest Joe Rogan Comments Reveal His Censorship...
It was described as a horrifying book about how the process of encroaching censorship works, one small step at a time.
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And if anybody's interested in this sort of process and this is a horrifying book, if you wanna read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men.
Episode: Do Latest Joe Rogan Comments Reveal His Censorship...
It was described as a horrifying book about how the process of censorship works, gradually encroaching until significant changes have occurred.
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if anybody's interested in this sort of process and this is a horrifying book if you want to read about how this process works you can read a book called ordinary men
Episode: Elon Musk Leaves Press Speechless by Torching Bide...
It was described as a horrifying book about how authoritarianism works incrementally, one small step at a time. The podcast host mentioned ordering it the night before the podcast.
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if you wanna read about how this process works you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning.
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