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100 1  Browning, Christopher R.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Ordinary men :|bReserve Police Battalion 101 and the final
       solution in Poland /|cChristopher R. Browning ; with a new
       afterword. 
250    Revised edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHarper Perennial,|c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    349 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-331) and 
       index. 
520    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. 
610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
       |bReservepolizeibataillon 101. 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|vPersonal narratives, German. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAtrocities. 
710 2  Mazal Holocaust Collection.|5TxSaTAM