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Essay / Essay on Christopher Browning - 600
Christopher Browning is a well-known historian and also a writer. His best-known books are books about the Holocaust during World War II. During the Holocaust, the men responsible for the murders were members of the Nazi regime, led by Adolf Hitler. Studies show that approximately six million Jews were murdered during this time. These murders were painful and unethical. At the beginning of the book, Browning begins by citing facts about the Holocaust. He quotes: “By mid-March 1942, approximately 75 to 80 percent of all Holocaust victims were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished. The following year, the numbers were completely reversed. The majority of Jewish murders took place in Poland. Christopher Browning questions how the Germans organized and carried out the mass murder of Jews. He also questions how Germany found the resources to enable the Nazi regime to mobilize, considering that Germany, in the Treaty of Versailles, had to reduce its army. For him to answer this question, it led him to investigate, and while investigating he came across a group of m...