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In the book Ordinary Men, about the Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, we learn that these reasonably normal-seeming citizens were responsible for mass shootings and also the round-ups of Jews for deportation to death camps.

Oddly, they were not fanatical Nazis and the psychology behind their motives has been studied and picked over for years

Author Richard Browning makes the case that these middle-aged men who committed depraved and dehumanizing atrocities were driven by a mixture of motives:

… group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.

I thought about these men during the darkest days of Covid-19 authoritarianism and how quickly friends and neighbours succumbed to manufactured fear, driven by public health propaganda and media talking points.

In a Netflix documentary about the RBU 101 unit, one of the German psychologists who studied the cas