Tuesday, April 7, 2009

I believe that these people became killer not because of the hatred for the Jewish people but because of their low status. These people were not good enough to be able to join the German army, so they were dispersed amongst ghettos to help transport people into camps. It was said in that "These orders were not to his liking, either, but they came from above" which means that they did not really want to do it but they had to. It was like being given an assignment from a boss, if you didn't perform the given task then you would be punished, but in this instance death probably would occur due to their insubordination. However, when the task was given the option was given that if anyone wanted to step down they could do to the grotesque task. When one man stepped out and didn't want to participate in the orders he was berated by one of the soldiers. It seems that some of these men didn't want to be looked as weak and cowards. The people that Browning talked about, seemed to kill because it was an order given to them and was apart of their job, along with the fact they didn't want to be looked upon as cowards.

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