Voices on Antisemitism: Christopher Browning, Ph.D. (Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Series: Voices on Antisemitism
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:04:48
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Historian Christopher Browning has written extensively about how ordinary Germans became murderers during the Holocaust. Listen to Browning explain why examining the perpetrators' history matters.
Voices on Antisemitism is a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism and hatred in our world today. To learn more about antisemitism, and to contribute your thoughts to our series, please visit our Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's podcast series on contemporary genocide.
Transcript
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING:
How does a government decide as a matter of public policy to murder a group of people? How do people? ordinary people? become mass murders? The Holocaust was not simply a sensational act of sadism by a few crazies in the Nazi regime. This was a bureaucratic, administrative process; it involved all facets of German society and German organizational life. And we couldn't understand the Nazis, we couldn't understand World War II, we couldn't understand twentieth century European history if we didn't know about the Holocaust.
DANIEL GREENE:
Historian Christopher Browning believes it is his job as an educator to pose difficult questions. History, he says, is about knowing ourselves, knowing what we are capable of as human beings. In his book Ordinary Men, Professor Browning examines the choices made by ordinary Germans, as they became mass murderers during the Holocaust...
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There is not any audio with this podcast. While the transcript is interesting, Browning is such a major part of most Holocaust discussions in academic settings, it would be nice to have that available on here