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Table of contents:
This detailed and harrowing study of a single group of mostly middle-aged policemen from provincial Germany has achieved classic status among histories of the Holocaust. Far from being demonic and hate-filled sadists, most of the group had no history of anti-semitism or of far right politics. Browning explores the motivation of these men and the horribly familiar mechanisms of man-management and group solidarity that reduced a team of ordinary men into a bestial instrument of madness. It is a book that offers no comfort to those who seek to explain the Holocaust in terms of German exceptionalism, but it is a significant contribution to the history of World War II.
Contents:
One morning in Jozefow
- 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 murder - the Josefow massacre
- reflections on a massacre
- Lomazy - the descent of second company
- the August deprotations to Treblinka
- late-September shootings
- the deportations resume
- the strange health of Captain Hoffmann
- the Jew hunt
- the last massacre - harvest festival
- aftermath
- Germans, Poles and Jews
- ordinary men
- appendix - shootings and deportations by reserve police battalion 101.
Brief Description:
This volume takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and explores in detail its composition, its actions and the methods by which it was trained to perform acts of genocide on an industrial scale.
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