500 Men Were Given a Choice Before the Józefów Massacre. Fewer Than 12 Stepped Forward.
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500 Men Were Given a Choice Before the Józefów Massacre. Fewer Than 12 Stepped Forward.
A documentary on Reserve Police Battalion 101 — the unit at the center of Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men. These weren't SS fanatics. They were middle-aged clerks and truck drivers from Hamburg who were given a genuine choice before the killing began. Fewer than 12 stepped aside. This covers the Milgram experiments, Hannah Arendt's findings at the Eichmann trial, and the four psychological mechanisms Browning identified. Sources in the description.
WW2, Holocaust, history documentary, psychology, Reserve Police Battalion 101, Christopher Browning, Hannah Arendt, Milgram experiment, Ordinary Men, Nazi Germany
u/Economy_West6016 — 7 days ago
In 1910, the man who rewrote American medicine had no medical degree. He ran a prep school.
Abraham Flexner visited all 155 American medical schools in 1908-1909 and wrote the report that shut down most of them. His qualifications: a bachelor's degree and experience running a private prep school in Louisville, Kentucky.
The report was funded by Rockefeller and Carnegie. By 1920, women had dropped from 50% to 4% of American doctors. Six Black medical schools closed.
Flexner never practiced medicine a day in his life.
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In 1910, a man with no medical training wrote a report that destroyed half of American medicine. He was funded by Rockefeller.
The Flexner Report is taught as a triumph of scientific progress. But the funding behind it tells a different story.
By 1920, women had dropped from 50% to 4% of American doctors. Six Black medical schools closed. Homeopathic and eclectic traditions were eliminated — not because they were disproven, but because they couldn't be patented.
The mechanism was the same one Rockefeller used with Standard Oil: control the infrastructure, control the definition of legitimate.
What do you think — was this reform or regulatory capture?
Some context that might interest historians here:
Flexner had no medical degree. He ran a prep school in Louisville before writing the most influential medical document in American history. His report was funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations — both of whom had significant financial interests in petrochemical-based pharmaceuticals.
The schools that survived were the ones that received Rockefeller and Carnegie donations — with conditions attached about curriculum.
This isn't fringe history. It's documented in E. Richard Brown's "Rockefeller Medicine Men" (1979) and Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Social Transformation of American Medicine" (1982).
Has anyone read Brown's Rockefeller Medicine Men or Starr's Social Transformation? Curious what historians here think of the regulatory capture argument.
I also made a documentary-style breakdown of this if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/nI6GHBXssNU
u/Economy_West6016 — 9 days ago