Before Browning\'s 1992 book, most Holocaust scholarship focused either on the experience of the victims or on the Nazi political ideology driving the slaughter.
Who were they? How could they end up committing such unspeakable acts?.
Browning investigates something else: the men who carried out acts of extreme violence.
Before Browning\'s 1992 book, most Holocaust scholarship focused either on the experience of the victims or on the Nazi political ideology driving the slaughter