Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

9 reviews

davidsandilands's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Genocide, Murder, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

byashleylamar's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Child death, Genocide, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry

lottie1803's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Death, Deportation, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Genocide, Torture, War, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Police brutality, and Violence

brittanylee0302's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

Overall this book was extremely informative. However, I feel like the information could have been presented in a way that would make the read more engaging and interesting. I also found this book kind of disorganized, it's not written in chronological order & it back tracks & jumps around in a way that makes things hard to follow. It's also very repetitive & seems to drag on a little more than it needed too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Alcoholism, Genocide, Death of parent, Racism, Murder, Child death, and War

Minor: Pregnancy

steffol's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Gore

flexmentallo's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

4.75

A bleak and informative look at the 'ordinary men' who helped make the Holocaust happen. I do think there are a few flaws in Browning's research (he seems to think that ordinary people become cops, and that ordinary cops are not brutal thugs), but the book was initially written in the 90s, so research on police brutality may not have been as advanced as it is today. Still, as a text about how to push people into murder and beyond, it is indispensable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Antisemitism

random19379's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

<Stanford prison experiment has been debunked<

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Classism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, War, Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Torture, Body horror, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

kackjennedy's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, War, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death, Racism, Violence, and Racial slurs

krishanpatel's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

You can't understand how the Holocaust happened until you understand that even many of the Nazis who personally killed Jewish civilians themselves, such as the Order Police Battalion 101, were not originally born or raised as inherently evil people at first. They started out as ordinary men.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide