Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

One man said he decisively rejected the Jewish measures of the Nazis because he was an active Communist Party member and thus rejected National Socialism in its entirety.

“The Jews who followed had to climb on and later even clamber over those shot earlier, because the grave was filled with corpses almost to the edge.”

By 1942 standards of German-Jewish relations, a quick death without the agony of anticipation was considered an example of human compassion!