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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 Di

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Author

Christopher R Browning; Mazal Holocaust Collection

Publisher

Harper Collins Publishers

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062303028

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (157 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14