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Browning, Christopher R. was born on May 22, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Willard and Eleanor (Oechsli) Browning.
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Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regime’s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place during this crucial period—of how, precisely, the Nazis’ racial policies evolved from persecution and “ethnic cleansing” to the Final Solution of the Holocaust. Focusing on the months between the German conquest of Poland in September 1939–which brought nearly two million additional Jews under Nazi control—and the beginning of the deportation of Jews to the death camps in the spring of 1942, Christopher R. Browning describes how Poland became a laboratory for experiments in racial policies, from expulsion and decimation to ghettoization and exploitation under local occupation authorities. He reveals how the subsequent attack on the Soviet Union opened the door for an immense radicalization of Nazi Jewish policy—and marked the beginning of the Final Solution. Meticulously documenting the process that led to this fatal development, Browning shows that Adolf Hitler was the key decision-maker throughout, approving major escalations in Nazi persecution of the Jews at victory-induced moments of euphoria. Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, this groundbreaking work provides an essential chapter in the history of the Holocaust.
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Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies that have arisen from the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt's uncritical acceptance of Adolf Eichmann's self-portrayal in Jerusalem; the conviction of Ivan Demjanuk (acc
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An important concern in understanding the "machinery" of the Holocaust is the timing of the decision to put into effect the Final Solution, the systematic murder of the European Jews. This book explores the crucial first steps in implementing the mass murder, including Hitler's role in the decision-making process. The participation of middle and lower middle echelon Germans, and the development of the technology of destruction, in particular, the gas van for use in the death camps. Looking at events from summer 1941 to Spring 1942, Christopher Browning sheds important new light on the historians' debate about how the policy of systematic mass murder emerged.
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The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organized atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from 1939 to 1942 seeks to answer some of the fundamental questions about what actually happened and why, between the outbreak of war and the emergence of the Final Solution. Christopher Browning's account assesses the historians' interpretations and offers his own insights, based on detailed case studies that uncovered important and telling new evidence.
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Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population expulsion and decimation ("ethnic cleansing") to total and systematic extermination? How did Nazi authorities attempt to reconcile policies of expulsion and extermination with the wartime urge to exploit Jewish labor? How were Jewish workers impacted? What role did local authorities play in shaping Nazi policy? What more can we learn about the mindset and behavior of the local perpetrators? Using new evidence, this book attempts to shed light on these important questions. Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Path to Genocide (Cambridge University Press 1992) and Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, which received the Jewish National Book Award.
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German Jewish policy was not the result of a conspiratorial plot hatched in Hitler's mind following Germany's defeat in WWI and then carried out with single-minded purpose and patient cunning through the instrumentation of a monolithic dictatorship. It evolved from a conjuncture of several factors of which Hitler's Anti-semitism was only one. The Jew as universal scapegoat provided consistency in Hitlers Weltanschauung by forming the connecting link between all he opposed and attacked.
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Browning, Christopher R. was born on May 22, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Willard and Eleanor (Oechsli) Browning.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1967; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1975.
Instructor history Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1969-1971. Assistant professor history Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, 1974-1979, associate professor, 1979-1984, professor, 1984-1997, distinguished university professor, 1997-1999. Frank Porter Graham professor history University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1999.
J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro senior scholar in residence United States Holocaust Museum, 1996, Ina Levine scholar, 2002-2003. George Macaulay Trevelyan lecturer Cambridge University, 1999, Bertelsmann lecturer, Oxford University, 2007. George L. Mosse lecturer University Wisconsin, Madison, 2002.
(German Jewish policy was not the result of a conspiratori...)
( Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln,...)
(An important concern in understanding the "machinery" of ...)
(The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one o...)
(Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on co...)
(Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final ...)
(Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated...)
( Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a uni...)
Fellow: National Human Center, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Jennifer Jane Horn. Children: Kathryn, Anne.