THE DEBATE OVER

In 1992, Professor Christopher R. #Browning published his groundbreaking 📖 book "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland". It fundamentally changed how we looked at and studied the Holocaust. Before it was published, most of us thought of the Shoah as a dehumanized, faceless, and almost industrial process, perpetrated by leaders, official subordinates, and collaborators.

Professor Browning’s research demonstrated that it was, in fact, often ordinary people who took on the responsibility for the extermination of innocent lives. His book caused an earthquake in Germany and around the world, resulting in a seismic shift in how the Holocaust is discussed, studied, and perceived. Now, three decades later, we revisit Professor Browning’s seminal work and look at how it has changed the course of Holocaust research. As always, we are grateful for your engagement, your questions, and your comments.

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Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1999 until his retirement in May 2014. He is the author of eight books, including The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942 (2004), Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp (2010), and Ordinary Men: Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992), all of which won National Jewish Book Awards.

Browning has served as the J. B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar (1996) and Ina Levine Senior Scholar (2002–03) at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. Browning has served as an expert witness in several war crimes trials, as well as in two Holocaust denial cases: the second Zündel trial in Toronto, 1988, and in David Irving’s libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt in London, 2000.

Dariusz Stola is the former Director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. A historian of 20th-century Polish history, Dr. Stola taught at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and was a fellow at the Center for Migration Research, Warsaw University. He has published nine books and more than a hundred articles on international migrations in the 20th century, the Communist regime in Poland, Polish-Jewish relations, and the Holocaust. His book, A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland, 1949-1989 received a prestigious book of the year award as the first comprehensive analysis of international mobility in a Communist country.

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