Jordan Peterson on history: what the evidence says · JRE #877
SUBJECT: HISTORY
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if you want to read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning. And Ordinary Men is about... Browning was interested in how the Nazis trained their... how they train people to kill
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Peterson recommended the book Ordinary Men and named its author as Robert Browning. The book, published by HarperCollins in 1992 with the full title Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, was written by historian Christopher R. Browning, not Robert Browning. Christopher Browning is a Holocaust historian who spent his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his faculty page lists Ordinary Men among his major publications. Robert Browning, by contrast, was a 19th-century English poet unconnected to the book or its subject matter. The book's content described in the clip, an examination of Reserve Police Battalion 101 and how ordinary German policemen came to participate in mass killing, matches Christopher Browning's actual work; only the author's first name was misstated.