07155cam a2201057 a 4500 ordinarymenreser0000brow CaSfIA 20250728155443.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 910516s1992 nyuabf ob 001 0deng 91050471 (OCoLC)1150933643 DLC eng DLC UV$ BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP MOF UBC HEBIS S3O GBVCP OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO TAMSA OCLCQ OCL OCLCO OCL OCLCQ LND OCLCO XFF OCLCO UEJ KKX OCLCO CSJ OCLCO CPO JDP OCLCO OCLCA OCL OCLCQ OCLCO CSO OCLCO UKNRU OCLCO CNO OCLCO IGP OCLCA OCL CaSfIA 0060190132 9780060190132 0060995068 9780060995065 0062303023 (pbk.) 9780062303028 (pbk.) e-pl--- e-gx--- D804.3 .B77 1992 000084154 940.53/18 20 15.70 bcl 15.43 bcl 15.72 bcl Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland / Christopher R. Browning. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, ©1992. 1 online resource (xxii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Aaron Asher books." Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index. One morning in Józefów -- The order police -- The order police and the Final solution : Russia 1941 -- The order police and the Final solution : deportation -- Reserve Police Battalion 101 -- Arrival in Poland -- Initiation to mass muder : the Józefów massacre -- Reflections on a massacre -- Łomazy : the descent of Second Company -- The August deportations to Treblinka -- Late-September shootings -- The deportations resume -- The strange health of Captain Hoffmann -- The "Jew hunt" -- The last massacres : "Harvest festival" -- Aftermath -- Germans, Poles, and Jews -- Ordinary men. In the early hours of July 13, 1942, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of the German Order Police, entered the Polish Village of Jozefow. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat service--workers, artisans, salesmen, and clerks. By nightfall, they had rounded up Jozefow's 1,800 Jews, selected several hundred men as "work Jews," and shot the rest--that is, some 1,500 women, children, and old people. Most of these overage, rear-echelon reserve policemen had grown to maturity in the port city of Hamburg in pre-Hitler Germany and were neither committed Nazis nor racial fanatics. Nevertheless, in the sixteen months from the Jozefow massacre to the brutal Erntefest ("harvest festival") slaughter of November 1943, these average men participated in the direct shooting deaths of at least 38,000 Jews and the deportation to Treblinka's gas chambers of 45,000 more--a total body count of 83,000 for a unit of less than 500 men. Drawing on postwar interrogations of 210 former members of the battalion, Christopher Browning lets them speak for themselves about their contribution to the Final Solution--what they did, what they thought, how they rationalized their behavior (one man would shoot only infants and children, to "release" them from their misery). In a sobering conclusion, Browning suggests that these good Germans were acting less out of deference to authority or fear of punishment than from motives as insidious as they are common: careerism and peer pressure. With its unflinching reconstruction of the battalion's murderous record and its painstaking attention to the social background and actions of individual men, this unique account offers some of the most powerful and disturbing evidence to date of the ordinary human capacity for extraordinary inhumanity. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Reservepolizeibataillon 101. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. 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