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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
1,616 wordsThe men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in. The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalion. Trapp joined the Nazi p...
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Hitler Willing Executioners Police Battalion 101 Germany
563 wordsIn Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Goldhagen explains what could have provoked the German people to support the murder of six million European Jews. His central theory is that the perpetrators of genocide in Nazi Germany were not a small group of SS zealots but thousands of ordinary Germans who killed with the consent of millions more. One of his most convincing examples is that of Police Battalion 101. Due to manpower shortages during the war, the police battalions...
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Police Battalion 101 Peer Pressure
654 wordsBrowning Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning accounts for the actions of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 in Poland) and the role they played in the WWII during the Jewish Holocaust. Police Battalion 101 was composed of veterans from World War One and men too old to be drafted into the regular forces: army, navy, air force. Browning himself is uncertain of the accuracy of information that he provides because he based his study on personal evidence recorded in postwar legal investigations...
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Perpetrators Of The Holocaust Police Battalion 101
2,853 wordsPerpetrators of the Holocaust, Police Battalion 101 One of the ugliest events during the World War 2 was the Holocaust period when Nazis were torturing Jews and other people that they thought were not worthy to live. Many psychological effects caused by the Holocaust forever changed the way the Jewish people view the world and themselves. The world's biggest desolation that caused the murders of millions of Jewish people took place during WWII. The Holocaust orchestrated by the Nazi Empire destr...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
763 wordsOrdinary Men Christopher R. Browning was born in 1944. He received his A. B. from Oberlin College (1967) and his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison (1975). He has been a member of the History Department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, since 1974. His book, The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office, was published in 1978. He has undertaken research on the Final Solution in German archives and court records with the support of fellowships from the German ...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
1,428 wordsThere is no doubt that during Hitler s reign in Germany, someone killed Jews. Someone ordered the killings, someone organized the killings and someone killed them. Is there a difference in these someones? For many years there has been controversy surrounding the extermination of the Jews during the Nazi era. People were tried and convicted for their involvement: some of them denied their contribution, others appeared neutral, and still others were proud of their involvement. These killers came f...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
1,631 wordsOrdinary Men Analysis The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in. The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalion. T...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
2,129 wordsThe stunningly and powerful book Ordinary Men was written by Christopher R. Browning. Browning is a professor of History at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is a contributor to Yad Vashem s official twenty-four-volume history of the Holocaust. Browning also wrote many other books on this subject. His book Ordinary Men reveals the truth about how a unit of average, middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Reich says, Browning tel...
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