" Browning tells us how they were transformed psychologically from ordinary men...to active participants in the most monstrous crime in history.

In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I, a revolution broke out. The "Order police" resulted from the third attempt in interwar Germany to create large Police formation with military training and equipment. As the army dissolved, military officers and government officials who were afraid of being swept away by the revolution organized paramilitary units known as Freikorps. When the situation became stable in 1919, the Freikorps men merged with regular police into formation stations in barracks to combat further resurgence. The allies demanded the dissolution of these police units in 1920 as a

By the middle of March in 1942, 25 percent of the victims of the Holocaust had perished, prior to the 101 Police Battalions arrival in Jozefow, Poland. Only six months later, that number had reached 80 percent, leaving less than a quarter alive. (Reich 2). By March 1942, despite two and a half years of persecution and deprivation, every major Jewish community was still intact. Eleven months later, only the remnants survived in few ghettos and labor camps. The German attack on the Jews in Poland was carried out in a massive Blitzkrieg offensive. The offensive came when the German war effort in Russia hung in the balance. If the military offensive was a failure, the Blitzkrieg especially in Poland against the Jews was not.

From a military point of view, Hitler wasted so much manpower, money, and time killing off all the Jews around Europe. Hitler almost had Europe on her knees, but Hitler's mistakes caused him to loose the war. Looking at the Holocaust from my own eyes, I see it as one of the greatest losses the world has ever known. Thousands of Jews died. They tried to escape and hide in the forest, in cells, barns, and anywhere they could squeeze their bodies into. Riech says, "...they were defenseless, naked, holding on to their children, stuffed into cattle cars, and shot in firing lines."

Browning, Christopher R. Orindary Men.

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