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Throughout the later chapters, Browning tells us what the Police Battalion 101 participated in. The Police Battalion 101 cleared the ghettos, deported Jews, participated in mass shootings and were involved in Jew hunts. During these Jew hunts the Jews that had avoided deportation and execution were chased down. The Police Battalion wanted to cleanse the Lublin district by sending small death-squads into the woods in search for hiding Jews. This was the bloody climax for the Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the Nazi Holocaust. Browning ends the book by talking to us about what the Police Battalion 101 did after the fall of the Third Reich. The investigations of 1962-1967 only lead to a few very short prison sentences for three soldiers who were
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One explanation proposed is that terrible things happen during war, the Americans at My Lai, the Japanese at Manila both slaughtered innocents. Browning describes a ‘battlefield frenzy’ where men are ‘numbed to the taking of human life, embittered over their own casualties’ but he notes that the type of brutality that these feelings might produce ‘did not represent official government policy.’ Another type of atrocity is the type that is calculated, it is ‘atrocity by policy’ and it is this that applies to Reserve Police Battalion 101. Most had not seen military service, ‘most had not fired a shot in anger or ever been fired on, much less lost comrades fighting at their side.’ Certainly ‘battlefield frenzy’ cannot be applied to that first morning at Józefów; Tom Lawson agrees that the war plays a part in explaining why these men committed these murders ‘but not [on] that first day.’ However, as the men’s jobs of killing Jews became ‘routine’ and hence ‘easier’ they did become more ‘brutalized’; ‘in this sense, brutalization was not the cause but the effect on these men’s behaviour.’

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