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The group will watch and discuss this recent Netflix Film: Based on the book by Christopher Browning. Other historians will be interviewed as well for their perspectives.
This book has been discussed frequently over the past years in Mr. Holden’s presentations as we have examined aspects of the Holocaust. The film will show that these were indeed “Ordinary Men” (They were recruited from town police forces, postal carriers, and other civic organizations) who murdered many thousands of Jews ahead of the advancing Wehrmacht troops as they invaded Eastern Europe.
There will be surprises as to the murder techniques utilized by these men and many will be surprised to learn that any man who did not want to commit murder, could refuse and suffer no retribution! This book destroyed the oft used phrase by convicted Nazi murderers, “Ï was only following orders.” Attendees will discover that those orders did NOT have to be followed!
Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)
He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.
He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.
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