Ordinary men

Since I first learned about the Holocaust in fifth grade, I had always condemned Hitler’s Germany and assumed a similar belief to that of the book, Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning. Browning used a lot of details, when describing and explaining various situations that took place during the Nazi rule in Germany. There was one primary question that Ordinary Men dealt with; were the average German soldiers and civilians responsible for the Holocaust?
Browning basically follows the German Reserve Battalion 101 from their formation in Hamburg, to the start of their killing of Jews, all the way to their final development as experienced killers. According to Browning, the average German did not willingly participate in the killing of Jews. Instead, he believes that due to peer pressure, the Germans followed blindly the orders of their leaders. His assumption as to why Germans did not try to stop the mass killing of the Jews was that they simply were unaware of what was ha...