Browning opens the book describing Major Wilhelm Trapp’s orders on the day of July thirteen, 1942, once Police Battalion 101 committed its 1st major killing within the Polish city of Jozefow. The next chapter then sets up the question that Browning can address: “How did a battalion of old reserve policemen notice themselves facing the task of shooting someone, 500 Jews within the Polish village of Jozefow within the summer of 1942?” . After this Brown sets up the next chapters, 2 through 6, that chart the creation of the Order Police within the aftermath of World War I, and its early tasks within the initial years of World War II, once its numbers grew as thousands of German men volunteered, some to avoid the draft and front-line service,
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Brown explains Battalion 101’s history was documented post-war by investigators who sought to press charges against certain members. In all, 210 former members of Battalion 101 were interrogated between 1962-67. After interrogating these men, some more than once fourteen were indicted. They all had at least 8 year of being in prison. As more cases were being held some of the men were let off the trials because it was taking too much time in gathering information about them and their past history in the war. This is the fault of the judicial branch during the time Brown stated which is true. After reading the textbook, the textbook only gives a brief over view of how Europe will recover and nothing about the crimes that were committed. Observers were hoping by the late 1950s or 60s Europe and the rest of the world will be back on its feet. Since after WWI it took about a decade to get back to the way it …show more content…
The Battalion depicted a motivating test suit that might be accustomed to prove or negate the various theories concerning what driven German mass-executioners. As an example, though membership within the Nazi party was somewhat overrepresented, the men primarily came from a constant place, Hamburg, “by name one in every of the smallest amount Nazified cities in European nation.” This common origin, likewise because the indisputable fact that most of the men were old, it was necessary to Browning as a result of it meant that despite the comparatively high level of party membership, no one may say the Battalion’s members were primarily fashioned and formed by Nazi ideology and anti-Semitic information. In a sense, they ‘knew better’, or a minimum of ‘different.’ this could appear to negate the speculation that Hitler’s executioners were driven exclusively as a result of they'd been saturated with, and believed powerfully in anti-Semitic information, though it doesn't discount the very fact that such ideology was a part of their motivation. In the text book it mainly shows how Hitler was trying to shape young minds to his point of view. This was working at the time due to Germany being in economic turmoil, but it still wasn’t an excuse for older gentleman that were morally sound and have already experienced total war to just kill thousands of
Brown explains Battalion 101’s history was documented post-war by investigators who sought to press charges against certain members. In all, 210 former members of Battalion 101 were interrogated between 1962-67. After interrogating these men, some more than once fourteen were indicted. They all had at least 8 year of being in prison. As more cases were being held some of the men were let off the trials because it was taking too much time in gathering information about them and their past history in the war. This is the fault of the judicial branch during the time Brown stated which is true. After reading the textbook, the textbook only gives a brief over view of how Europe will recover and nothing about the crimes that were committed. Observers were hoping by the late 1950s or 60s Europe and the rest of the world will be back on its feet. Since after WWI it took about a decade to get back to the way it …show more content…
The Battalion depicted a motivating test suit that might be accustomed to prove or negate the various theories concerning what driven German mass-executioners. As an example, though membership within the Nazi party was somewhat overrepresented, the men primarily came from a constant place, Hamburg, “by name one in every of the smallest amount Nazified cities in European nation.” This common origin, likewise because the indisputable fact that most of the men were old, it was necessary to Browning as a result of it meant that despite the comparatively high level of party membership, no one may say the Battalion’s members were primarily fashioned and formed by Nazi ideology and anti-Semitic information. In a sense, they ‘knew better’, or a minimum of ‘different.’ this could appear to negate the speculation that Hitler’s executioners were driven exclusively as a result of they'd been saturated with, and believed powerfully in anti-Semitic information, though it doesn't discount the very fact that such ideology was a part of their motivation. In the text book it mainly shows how Hitler was trying to shape young minds to his point of view. This was working at the time due to Germany being in economic turmoil, but it still wasn’t an excuse for older gentleman that were morally sound and have already experienced total war to just kill thousands of