Original sentence: According to Browning the book, as well as works by other scholars Gross helped to bring to the attention of Holocaust historians, indicate that enormous strides have been taken in the study of the Holocaust in Poland and Polish-Jewish relations.According to Christopher Browning's central argument of the book is that the interpretation of the Polish role in pillaging and killing Jews as the merely deviant behavior of "scum" during wartime is wrong.Browning also notes in regard to the photograph which motivated the book that it is unknown who took it, when and why
Edited sentence: " The central argument of the book, per Browning, is that the interpretation of the Polish role in pillaging and killing Jews as the merely deviant behavior of "scum" during wartime is wrong.According to Browning, contemporary research shows that Jews hiding in rural Poland were exposed by local village elites and officials and that these Jews were subjected to torture, rape, and rituals of humiliation done in a public manner in an attempt to force the doomed Jews to reveal their presumed hidden wealth.According to Christopher Browning's review, Gross begins the book with a succinct statement of its subject: “The collusion of the Polish population in the pillaging and killing of Jews at the periphery of the Holocaust.Browning concludes by writing that the book, as well as works by other scholars Gross helped to bring to the attention of Holocaust historians, indicate that enormous strides have been taken in the study of the Holocaust in Poland and Polish-Jewish relations.Browning notes that Polish readers will find Gross's descriptions of Polish participation in the killing of their Jewish neighbors as challenging.Locals resented those who attempted to hide Jews as they were perceived to engage in "unjustified enrichment" at the expense of other community members who did not receive their fair share of Jewish property, while not seeing the torture and murder of Jews in the villages as a crime.Per Browning, an examination of such episodes reveals the shared values and norms of society