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Upon examining the excerpts from the works of Christopher Brownings' Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland; and Omer Bartov's Murder in our Midst: the Holocaust, Industrial killing, and Modernity; one develops an understanding of the responsibilities the average German soldier had on the Holocaust. Christopher Browning argues that that the average German soldier did not willingly participate in killing of Jews. Browning believes that Nazi propaganda was the machine that drove Nazism and coerced German civilians into killing the Jews. Bartov's arguments on the Holocaust are more of a theoretical depiction of both the culmination of science and law. He believes the Holocaust and National Socialism were ever-present in the organized states of the industrialized western society. We have developed ambivalence towards war and violence. All that is needed in the modernity of war is two crucial elements: a scientific stamp and legalistic sanction. Christopher Browning states in his book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, that the majority of the German
Browning continues to follow course in that the Germans were blindly following orders. As human beings we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. The Nazi's believed these human beings as not only inferior and therefore unworthy of life, but as positively dangerous to the national Aryan body and therefore doomed to quick and efficient, yet of course wholly unemotional, elimination. The fact will always remain that all Germans involved had the opportunity to decline participation in the killing of innocent Jews. Endnotes. What I feel Bartov made clear was that most of our history has been in a controlled environment. Every civilian and officer involved all knew what they were doing. Almost as if our innocence is controlled by the state and we are just law abiding citizens going about our natural instincts. Modern state anti-Semitism is distinguished from traditional anti-Semitism precisely by its combination of biological and legal definitions. military did not willingly participate in the mass genocide of the Jews. From Bartov's reading I gained a look into the bureaucracy of modernization and the obstacles surrounding science and law in modern warfare. This new form of industrialized killing consisted of two elements, that of science and law. Bartov elects to explain the governing body behind Nazism and its social uprising into the "Hitler State". What we can take from these readings is a sense of shame for a country that was under barbaric rule by a madman named Adolf Hitler. The emergence and implementation of industrial killing was a crucial component in the manifestation of the Holocaust.
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