Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

6 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

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