1. Ordinary Men
... combination of peer pressure and orders from superior officers. I think here that we do know a lot about how the Germans carried out the Holocaust, but we know much less about how they felt and what they thought as they did it, and how they were affected by what they did, and what made it possible for them to do it. I surmised here that it was social and peer ... pressures that ultimately allowed for the transformation into becoming mass murderers. I can also see that the soldiers and reservists couldn't have been all that opposed to the killings when given the option to remove themselve...
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