I did my university dissertation on the Holocaust and I only managed to read Ordinary Men now. It is the most horrifying book I've ever read. So much worse than reading pure statistics. The book contains extracts from interviews with the perpetrators and one of those men talked about how it was his job to execute children. One of his colleagues would murder the mother and it was his job to murder the child, he justified this to himself by believing that the child was destined to die anyway now it had been orphaned. And then theres the absolutely whammey thats the ending; it says that these men caused the deaths of 83,000 innocent people and after the war 2 were executed and 4 imprisoned for a collective total of 8.5 years. It then details how these were all normal people who by modern psychological and sociological theories would have been some of the least likely people to have committed such acts in a given society, that if these men could commit such acts then anyone can too.
I just finished the audiobook version. Its scary, not what they done but the potential and likelihood for me to too to become a monster despite my idealogical view of myself
Why doesn't this have more views... this feels like a classic Peterson moment.
Because hes a racist misogynist. Clearly doesn't have any insightful views of how the human mind works....
I did my university dissertation on the Holocaust and I only managed to read Ordinary Men now. It is the most horrifying book I've ever read. So much worse than reading pure statistics. The book contains extracts from interviews with the perpetrators and one of those men talked about how it was his job to execute children. One of his colleagues would murder the mother and it was his job to murder the child, he justified this to himself by believing that the child was destined to die anyway now it had been orphaned. And then theres the absolutely whammey thats the ending; it says that these men caused the deaths of 83,000 innocent people and after the war 2 were executed and 4 imprisoned for a collective total of 8.5 years. It then details how these were all normal people who by modern psychological and sociological theories would have been some of the least likely people to have committed such acts in a given society, that if these men could commit such acts then anyone can too.
I just finished the audiobook version. Its scary, not what they done but the potential and likelihood for me to too to become a monster despite my idealogical view of myself
If everyone understood they could’ve been those monsters and still could be, it could horrify a lot of people into being better
We always need to review this book. Scary to think about what we can do
I could only see innocent Palestinians