Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution In Poland - 98 edition

Christopher R. Browning is professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is a contributor to Yad Vashem's official twenty-four-volume history of the Holocaust and the author of two earlier books on the subject.

"Helps us understand, better than we did before, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen but also how they were transformed psychologically from the ordinary men of [the] title into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history."

-- New York Times Book Review

"A staggering and important book, a book that manages without polemic to communicate at least an intimation of the unthinkable."

-- Michael Dorris, Chicago Tribune

"A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior...This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."

-- Andrew Nagorski, Newsweek

Submitted by Publisher, June, 2001

Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1 One Morning in Jozefow 1
2 The Order Police 3
3 The Order Police and the Final Solution: Russia 1941 9
4 The Order Police and the Final Solution: Deportation 26
5 Reserve Police Battalion 101 38
6 Arrival in Poland 49
7 Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre 55
8 Reflections on a Massacre 71
9 Lomazy: The Descent of Second Company 78
10 The August Deportations to Treblinka 88
11 Late-September Shootings 97
12 The Deportations Resume 104
13 The Strange Health of Captain Hoffmann 114
14 The "Jew Hunt" 121
15 The Last Massacres: "Harvest Festival" 133
16 Aftermath 143
17 Germans, Poles, and Jews 147
18 Ordinary Men 159
Appendix Shootings and Deportations by Reserve Police Battalion 101 191
Notes 193
Index 219