lower middle class (35%), working, for example, as small-businessmen, artisans, government workers and salesmen. Another 2% were middle 3 class professionals, such as teachers or druggists. These men were not any specially indoctrinated bunch of Nazis, but rather drafted men not capable of serving in the regular forces. Their average age was 39, meaning that they were too old for the regular army and, therefore, after 1939 they were conscripted into the reserves (Browning, 1992). Their job was to…
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