As a law enforcement officer, your duty is to protect and serve the people whom you are entrusted in your city or neighborhood. This duty is of utmost importance and provides a sense of security for all the people who don't make the best law-abiding decisions. Law enforcement officers are typically people from your hometown, people you've grown up with and people you trust. Imagine for a moment if seeing a law enforcement officer struck fear into your heart, not from getting a ticket because you were going a little too fast, or maybe that yellow light changed to red a little too soon. Imagine if seeing a law enforcement officer meant that your own life was in danger, that you were afraid of death. Back in the 1940's, this is exactly the feeling of the Jewish and other unlikeable people of
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How the men lived in Reserve Police Battalion 101 was just this, normal, everyday blue-collar men who were now asked to do unspeakable things to those that were seen as less than people in the eyes of Hitler. “In mid-March of 1942,” he writes, “some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished according to Browning. 1942 is the year when the Holocaust started and the first prison camps were started. This meant that the orders of the men of Police Battalion 101 had drastically changed from protect and serve to find or kill. These ordinary men were given a choice, while the soldiers were away fighting, it was up to Battalions like this one to carry out such duties. The Battalions commander major Wilhelm Trapp tells his men what they must do and lets the older men know that if they did not want to follow their orders, they could leave. He understood what these orders were and gave his men an option, showing he at least in part had a heart for these people, but orders were
How the men lived in Reserve Police Battalion 101 was just this, normal, everyday blue-collar men who were now asked to do unspeakable things to those that were seen as less than people in the eyes of Hitler. “In mid-March of 1942,” he writes, “some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished according to Browning. 1942 is the year when the Holocaust started and the first prison camps were started. This meant that the orders of the men of Police Battalion 101 had drastically changed from protect and serve to find or kill. These ordinary men were given a choice, while the soldiers were away fighting, it was up to Battalions like this one to carry out such duties. The Battalions commander major Wilhelm Trapp tells his men what they must do and lets the older men know that if they did not want to follow their orders, they could leave. He understood what these orders were and gave his men an option, showing he at least in part had a heart for these people, but orders were