
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher R. Browning)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Browning's the Death of the Jews
The final killing in which the battalion participated was the mass of kill in the fall of 19 forty three, the harvest festival massacres. The most vociferous objectors were ultimately transferred back to units based in germany. More shooting and deportation followed, along with jew hunts for those who had gone into hiding or become or joined partisans. Reading all this is exhausting. Even in a fairly short book, the usual disturbing details, hard to understand, crop up,. such as, the jews went to their deaths with quiet composure.
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