Ordinary men and women in their shadows: gender issues in the Holocaust scholarship of Christopher R. Browning

Browning's "Ordinary Men" occupies a special place in Holocaust related literature. It marks the earliest, most impactful engagement of documentation assembled and generated by West German prosecutors after the war. Browning''s discussion of how seemingly ordinary German men became efficient executioners of the "Final Solution" gave and continues to give crucial perpetrator study far beyond the Holocaust