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A Book for Why People Do Evil

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The current wave of antisemitism in the United States, the destroyed cemeteries, the threats, has made me think more about why it is that people do horrible things. This isn’t a new train of thought for me.

Sometime between working with libraries and finding a position in the publishing industry, I earned my graduate degree in modern German history. Though I primarily focused on Imperial Germany and archaeology, the specters of WWII and the Holocaust haunted my education. They had to.

As a result, I became well acquainted with the study of genocide, the study of why people do terrible things. One book in particular stuck with me. Maybe because it was the first one that I read on the subject. Maybe because it really was that profound.

Ordinary Men by Chris Browning.jpgThat book was Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning.

(Though Chris…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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