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 Battalion One O One
Battalion one o one was used to resettle poles, mostly not jews, in western poland around lodz. In mid 19 forty, one, the battalion returned to hamburg and was functionally dissolved and reformed. It is these mostly newly enrolled men on whom browning's book focuses. The first massacre was in the polish village of josepha. They were ordered to collect the roughly 18 hundred jews living there, to shoot women, children and old people on the spot and ship out mail jews suitable for slave labor to lublen.
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