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Review title: Putative
Product review: This was a student thesis that achieved media stardom. The main point - German knowledge/particpation in the `final solution' was far more widespread was valid. But hardly surprising (given the number of victims).The work does little or nothing to analyze how `normal' people did the most vile things essential in the program. For that, read Browning's `Ordinary Men;' Sereny `Into That Darkness;' Rhodes `Masters of Death.' For the events themselves, there are far better sources (Babi Yar, Hilberg, etc).Though respecting the author's premise, the work is shoddy, poorly written, and shallow. The subject deserves much more effort. `Putative' is used so many times in the text it must have been the author's favorite thesaurus discovery.
