Browning's central finding from Reserve Police Battalion 101 is that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators were not coerced and faced no punishment for opting out — yet ~80–90% still chose to participate. He attributes this to situational pressures (obedience, peer deference, career concerns, and the brutalisation of conditions) rather than ideological zeal, framing the result as a 'tragic self-deception' rather than inevitability or pathology. The disturbing implication is that the threshold for participation is much lower than we want to believe.
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