ests that conformity played a large role as well in the decisions that many of the men in the reserve police made during the Holocaust.
             Christopher R. Browning poses the question in his book Ordinary Men, whether or not the members in the reserve police were "subject to such a barrage of clever and insidious propaganda that they lost the capacity for independent thought and responsible action" (176). This idea of reasoning is believed by many people, since there is no easy answer as to why these men took such incredibly barbarous actions. Theodor Adorno studied the psychological aspects of the actions by the reserve police shortly after the war. Adorno concentrated on the idea of "authoritarian personalities". He felt that the measures taken were due to "certain personality characteristics of violence-prone individuals that usually remain latent but can be activated under certain conditions". This could possibly be true of some of
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