# Christopher Browning
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Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is known for his work on the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing Nazi policies, and the use of survivor testimony. He is the author of nine books, including Ordinary Men (1992) and The Origins of the Final Solution (2004).Browning taught at Pacific Lutheran University from 1974 to 1999, eventually becoming Distinguished Professor.
Weimar America
Why do serious historians fear American democracy is hanging by a thread, with parallels to the fall of the Weimar Republic? In this episode, Christopher Browning, an expert on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, argues eerie similarities exist between our current problems and the hyper-polarized envir…
Psychology Takeaway: The Psychology of Evil
In this chilling but eye-opening episode, Ralph and Jim explore one of psychology’s most disturbing questions: What makes ordinary people do evil things?
From war crimes and systemic abuse to everyday cruelty and moral disengagement, they unpack the psychological processes and social conditions tha…
Film Club: Conspiracy (2001) - The Wannsee Conference
On the 20th January 1942 fifteen men met at the Wannsee Villa to discuss what they described as the final solution to the Jewish question. The Holocaust had been underway for many months but what those delegates agreed put in motion the industrial nature of the killings.
Roger Moorhouse, historian …
Film Club: Conspiracy (2001) - The Wannsee Conference
On the 20th January 1942 fifteen men met at the Wannsee Villa to discuss what they described as the final solution to the Jewish question. The Holocaust had been underway for many months but what those delegates agreed put in motion the industrial nature of the killings.
Roger Moorhouse, histor…
Episode #425: When Normal People Do the Unthinkable: Milgram, Ordinary Men, and You
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In this episode of the American Warrior Show, Rich Brown sits down with TC Fuller for a deep, uncomfortable, and necessary conversation about obedience, authority, and moral responsibility.
Using Stanley Milgram's famous obed…
Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Or, How Normal People Become Killers (David Pileggi) Ep. #242
Is the Holocaust fading from living memory—and if so, what are the consequences?
In this sobering and historically grounded conversation, Dru Johnson speaks with longtime Jerusalem resident and Anglican rector David Pileggi about why the Holocaust must be understood not merely as Jewish history, b…
Ep. 2 "The Old Germans" and Jewish Refugee Policies
In this episode, we discuss the lives of John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), and we interview renowned historian of the Holocaust Dr. Christopher Browning about US Jewish refugee policy during the 1930s. We also delve into German policies toward Jews in the pre-war perio…
Truth To Power | Christopher Browning | Interwar Germany and the US Today | 5-29-26
This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a conversation about "Interwar Germany and the U.S. Today: Are They Comparable Cases of the Failure of Democracy and the Rise of Dictatorship?" This virtual community conversation with Christopher R. Browning, Professor Emeritus of History at the Universit…
The Cruelty You're Capable Of — Ordinary People and the Banality of Evil
We want there to be a line: us on one side, the people who do monstrous things on the other. This episode is about how thin that line actually is. It opens in a Polish field in July 1942, where about five hundred middle-aged reservists were offered a no-penalty way out of a massacre and almost none…
Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners Audiobook by Simon Taylor
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing ExecutionersAuthor: Simon TaylorNarrator: Macat.comPublisher: Macat International Limited.Release date: 06-06-2016Language: EnglishSummary:American author Da…
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