After reading the book Ordinary Men, Christopher Brown made me realize how terrible the holocaust affected humankind. Not only were humans lost but also a mass amount of religious Jews were held accountable for the downfall of the German empire. Hitler was one of the main leaders of the cause of the holocaust, but in the state of South Carolina we believe the hand of one is the hand of all so Hitler could not have wanted to cause this uprising tragedy all by himself. Germans agreed and supported his theory of the mass killing of all the Jews in Europe, that’s why the holocaust was executed.
During the mass destruction of the Jewish population in Germany, Christopher Browning referred to the German murders as ordinary men. Any person that I know has committed such a crime is referred to as a convict. He referred to these men in that nature because these men were young middle-aged civilians with little or no career in law justice as a police officer or any other reinforcement officer. He discovered his knowledge on the men from many different testimonials that were left behind from the frightened …show more content…
These upper and lower class civilians did not know while participating in the holocaust that they would be instructed to kill Jews that would be unarmed and innocent for not fighting back as self defense. These Germans had a choice whether they wanted to participate in the holocaust. This is represented on pgs. 55-60 where participants were asked if they would like to continue to participate in the killing of the defenseless Jews. Some civilians decided that the holocaust was a war that they did not want to get involved in so the civilians turned in their weapons and were instructed to conquer other duties by the leading commander. This statement shows how the men that fought in this war were not cold-hearted men. They did not want to just kill an innocent soul for no