Ordinary Men
ORDINARY MEN by Christopher Browning Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning accounts for the actions of the German Order Police ( more specifically the actions of Reserve Police Battalion 101in Poland) and the role they played in the Second World War 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. ... This also offers a biographical profile of a German unit that consisted of approximately 500 men who in the sixteen months starting in July of 1942 participated in the slaughter of more than 80,000 jews. Between August of 1942 and May of 1943 the accounts of the number of jews deported from their homes was estimated at a minimum of 45,200 men women and children as well as an estimated minimum of 38,000 jews shot and killed between July 1942 and November 1943. ... According to Dennis Nobles review of Brownings book in the Library Journal 117:180 F 15 ‘92, he is intrigued by the fact that the commander of Reserve Battalion 101 gave his men a choice of wether or not they wished to participate in the mass shoutings of Jews of Jozefow, Poland and only a few refused.