One of the underlying themes that had a major role in the Nazi's rise to power was racial superiority. This same sense of superiority and oneness as a pure Aryan race has had its effects even in the Nazi's continued access to power. Browning brings this to surface as he suggests the idea that Battalion 101 was even influenced into become killers, going against their natural inclinations by still looking upon the Jews as an inferior race. That translated into an almost innate sense of duty and responsibility that they held to accomplish this duty of murder.
To continue to better understand the situation of these men, Browning writes how the men had undergone so many killings that some of these men became experts almost. They would learn to become as indirect or as removed as possible, killing in hordes of people so that the victims became faceless as possible. And over time, it just became easier for them to kill, even to the point of exceeding the expectations of Nazi leaders because there was no level of attachment involved... they had become methodical killers without them even being aware of it.
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