Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Also, the Policemen didn’t mind loading the Jews on railcars so that they could be shipped off to a death camp where others could execute them.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The participation of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the Final Solution culminated in the Aktion Erntefest massacres of Jews imprisoned at the Trawniki, Poniatowa and Majdanek concentration camps with subcamps in Budzyn, Kraśnik, Puławy, Lipowa and other slave-labor projects of the Ostindustrie (Osti). This is a thoughtful piece of work in which the author rehearses a variety of potential psychological explanations for the actions of RPB101, and the extent to which the capacity for violence lies within all of us.Early on in the book there is a letter from a German official trying to run the local economy in the east complaining about the implementation of what later became known as the Final Solution. Browning's book Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland is a hell of a book and interesting to me for more reasons than one of my messy goodreads reviews (did I mention that is my 600th? Controlling the manner in which people interpret their world is one way to control behavior, Milgram argues. To make their security area truly judenfrei, the men comb the forests, buildings, and barns in the district to find any Jews who are hiding and have escaped deportation.

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They rounded up tens of thousands of Nazi ghetto inmates for deportations to extermination camps during the liquidation of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland, but also participated themselves in the murder of Polish Jews along with the Holocaust executioners known as Trawnikis. Between 1939 and 1945, the Ordnungspolizei maintained battalion formations, trained and outfitted by their main police offices within Germany. The battalion arrives in Biłgoraj, Poland in the early summer of 1942, during a lull in gas chamber killings at extermination camps like Sobibór and Treblinka. Major Nagel, was summoned to discuss “a basic Jewish action” scheduled to take place on August 31 and September 1.

He is the author of numerous books on Nazism and the Holocaust, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Therefore, those who shoot did not have to live with the clear awareness that what they had done had been avoidable.

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Yet 80 to 90 percent of the men proceeded to kill, though almost all of them—at least initially—were horrified and disgusted by what they were doing. Browning asserted that the only reason that historians debate whether five or six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust was a lack of access to archives in the former Soviet Union. During Operation Reinhard mass murders were committed by Battalion 101 against women, children and the elderly in various locations including forced-labour camps and subcamps, most notably during the Aktion Erntefest of 1943, the single largest German massacre of Jews in the entire war, with 42,000 victims shot in the execution pits over the bodies of others.Qualcuno si sentì male, qualcuno si rifiutò la prima volta, qualcuno ebbe scrupoli: ma tutti sostanzialmente svolsero il loro compito, e sin dal primo giorno di Polonia, il battaglione 101, protagonista di questo studio, aveva radunato casa per casa e trucidato oltre 1500 ebrei. Post-war, they were full of the usual excuses, all about the people and none about ethics and morality of the actions. follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead.