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Hamburg, xvii, xx, xxi, 67, 147

Operation Reinhard, 50, 52, 54

Opole, 150

Oppeln, 28, 38

Oradour, 160

Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo), xvi, xviii, xxi, 1, 3, 51-52, 56, 105, 111, 113, 119, 122, 146, 164-65, 168-69

Battalion 9, 9

Battalion 11, 18-24

Battalion 45, 16, 18

Battalion 61, 41

Battalion 74, 29

Battalion 105, 91

Battalion 133, 31, 36, 132

Battalion 303, 16

Battalion 304, 16-17

Battalion 306, 122

Battalion 309, 11-12

Battalion 314, 16-18

Battalion 316, 12-14

Battalion 320, 16-17

Battalion 322, 12-16

guarding deportation trains, 26-37

history of, 4-8

indoctrination of, 176-84

in Russia, 9-26

reserve battalions of, 6, 42, 169

reservists in, 5, 164, 177, 179, 189

Ordnungsdienst.
See
Jewish police

Ordnungspolizei.
See
Order Police

Ostmann,* Peter, 108, 170

Pacific War, 159-60

Pannwitz, Gut, 125

Parczew, 78, 88-91, 95, 104-105, 107, 110, 121, 123-24, 133, 179

Peters,* Oscar, 47, 98-99, 115, 117, 143, 153

Pfeiffer,* Friedrich, 108

Pflugbeil, General, 12

Piaski, 52, 54, 90, 133, 136

Pinsk, 24

Piszczac, 78

Pohl, Helmut, 28, 51

Poland, xv-xvii, 1, 3, 6, 9-10, 15, 27, 38-41, 44, 49, 53-55, 76, 81, 84, 94, 99-103, 122, 124, 126-27, 139, 144, 148, 152-53, 155-58, 164, 174, 183

Poles:

shot by German police, 101-102, 126, 144, 148-50, 157

Polish informers, 125-26, 155-56

Polish-Jewish relations, 155-58

Polish police, 7, 51, 99, 109, 115

Polish partisan resistance, 2, 100, 115, 123-24, 126, 129, 135, 143, 148

Police army (Armee der Landespolizei), 4

Police Regiment Center, 13, 15

Police Regiment South, 16-18

Police Regiment 22, 137

Police Regiment 24, 31-32

Police Regiment 25, 137

Poltava, 18

Poniatowa, 137, 139-42, 163

Posen:

speech of Himmler, 74-75

see also
Poznań

Poznań (Posen), 39-40, 44, 119, 148

Prague, 26-27

Probst,* Bruno, 40-41, 43, 148, 150, 156-57

Protectorate, 6, 53

Prutzmann,* Hans, 112

Puławy, 53, 114-15, 117-19, 125, 141, 148, 154

county of, 78, 114-15

Radom, 28, 89

district of, 7, 95-96

Radzyń, 88, 90-93, 98, 100-103, 106, 109-10, 121, 148

county of, 78, 89-91, 105, 106, 115, 134

Rawa Ruska, 132

Reich Security Main Office, 163

Rendsburg, 45

Reserve Police Battalion 101, xvi-xxi, 1-2, 8, 37, 53-54, 88, 94-97, 105-107, 109, 111, 120-21, 127, 131-34, 137-40, 142, 144, 159-60, 162-63, 165, 168-71, 174, 176, 178-79, 181-84, 188-89

composition of, xvii, 1, 38, 41, 44-48, 164

deportations from Hamburg by, 42-44

execution of Poles by, 40, 101-02, 126, 144, 148-50, 157

First Company of, 46, 55-57, 59-65, 68-69, 76, 89, 91-93, 98-100, 102, 107, 109-11, 138

First Platoon, 56

first duty in Poland, 38

guarding the Łódź

ghetto, 41

interrogations and testimonies of men of, xvii-xviii, xx, 67-68, 72, 144-47, 152, 174

and the “Jew hunt,” 123-32, 142, 163, 168, 188

at Józefów, 55-77

non-commissioned officers of, 40, 47, 62, 80-84, 102, 119, 128-29, 135, 144, 161, 168, 170

party and SS membership in, xvii, 45-48, 144, 151, 164

postwar police careers of men of, 144

resettlement of Poles by, 39-41, 135

Second Company of, 45-46, 56-57, 63-64, 69, 89, 105, 107, 134-35

First Platoon, 63-64, 78-79, 84, 105

at Łomazy, 78-87, 99

Second Platoon, 65, 78-79, 84, 105, 108, 154

Third Platoon, 56, 63, 65-66, 78-79, 89-91, 107, 110, 123

Third Company of, 46, 57, 63, 114-15, 123, 141, 156

First Platoon, 91, 98, 115, 117, 150

Second Platoon, 114, 130

Third Platoon, 55, 57, 59, 63, 114, 118

trial of, 145

Resettlement: of Gypsies, 39

of Jews,
See
Deportation of Jews

of Poles, 39-41, 135

Retzlaff, General, 12

Riebel, Lieutenant, 15, 16

Riga, 27, 42-44

Rohrbaugh,* Arthur, 130

Rosenberg, Alfred, 178

Russia, xv, 9-11, 18, 27, 39, 44, 52, 183

Russian prisoners-of-war, 77, 123-24

SA, 46, 151

St. Petersburg.
See
Leningrad Salitter, Paul, 27, 43-44

Scheer,* Hans, 47, 63-65, 79, 84, 135

Schepetovka, 18

Schimke,* Otto-Julius, 57, 67, 129

Schleswig-Holstein, 45

Schoenfelder,* Dr., 60

Schulze, Obersturmführer, 35

Schutzpolizei (Schupo), 4, 7, 30-31, 35, 46, 51

Schutzstaffel.
See
SS

SD.
See
Security Service

Secret State Police.
See
Gestapo

Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo), 4, 7, 9-10, 24, 26-27, 31-34, 36, 40, 42, 51, 137

Radzyń branch office (Aussenstelle), 90-91, 93-95, 106, 107-109, 111-13, 134, 188

Security Service (SD), 9, 40, 83, 139-40

Selbstschutz, 97

Sereny, Gitta, 163

Serokomla, 97-100, 102, 104, 110, 121, 163

Siam-Burma railroad, 161

Sicherheitspolizei.
See
Security Police

Siedlce, 144

Silesia, 38, 50

Skole, 31

Slavuta, 16

Slovakia, 27, 53

Slutsk, 19-23

Smolevichi, 19

Śniatyn, 32-33

Sobibór, 27-30, 50, 52-53, 79, 95, 115, 131, 136-37

Sonderdienst, 51, 98, 109

Sonderkommandos, 187

Soviet Union.
See
Russia

Sperlich,* Alfred, 125

Sporrenberg, Jacob, 137, 139

SS (Schutzstaffel), xvii, 4, 7-10, 25, 40, 43, 45-47, 51, 80, 83-84, 87, 89-90, 107, 112-13, 115, 117, 134-35, 137, 141, 144, 151, 154, 164-67, 177-81, 183, 187

SSPF (SS [Schutzstaffel] and Police Leader), 8, 49, 51, 54, 137, 139

Stalin, Josef, 10

Stalingrad, xvi

Stanford prison experiment, 167-68

Stangl, Franz, 29, 95, 163

Stanislawow, 32, 34

Staub, Erwin, 167

Steiner, John, 166-67

Steinmetz,* Heinrich, 56, 63, 65, 67-68, 74, 89-90, 107, 110, 123-24, 135

Streibel, Karl, 52

Streim, Alfred, xxi

Stryj, 31

Stuttgart, xvi, 144

Talcyn, 100-104, 144, 148-49, 163

Tarnogród, 54

Theresienstadt, 27

Third Reich, xix, 4, 39, 42, 143, 173, 177;
see also
Germany; Nazi Party

Trapp, Wilhelm, xx, 2, 45-46, 55, 57-63, 69-73, 76-77, 86-87, 89, 92, 100-103, 110-11, 113, 119-20, 122, 124, 130, 138, 143-44, 148-50, 153, 164, 171, 174, 188

Trawniki, 28, 52, 77, 79-80, 87, 104, 134-35, 137, 139

Treblinka, 50, 53, 77, 88-91, 95-96, 104, 106-107, 109, 111, 121, 134-37, 142, 163

Trials of Nazi crimes, xvi-xvii, 14, 17, 24, 144-46, 170

Tuczna, 78

Turobin, 54

Ukraine, 18

Ulanow, 54

Versailles Treaty, 4

Vienna, 26-30, 53

Vietnam, 160

Vinnitsa, 18

Volksdeutsche.
See
Ethnic Germans

Waffen-SS, 9, 24, 135, 137

Wandolin, 114

Warsaw, 12, 43, 53, 88-89, 94-96, 105, 131

district of, 7, 95, 122, 137

ghetto of, xvi, 41, 131, 136-37 Warthegau, 39, 44, 50

Weiss, Major, 11-12

Westermann, Lieutenant, 36

White Russians, 20-23

Wilhelm, Hans-Heinrich, 163

Wilhelmshaven, 45

Wippern, Georg, 51

Wirth, Christian, 51, 95

Wisznice, 78-79

Włodawa, 133, 136

Wohlauf, Julius, xx, 46, 56, 61-63, 65, 69, 91-93, 98-100, 110, 144, 165, 178

Wohlauf, Vera, 91-93, 110

Wohyn, 105

Wysokie, 54

Zakrzów, 54-55, 57

Zamość, 52-54, 135

Zaplatov, 32

Zentrale Stelle der Landes-justizverwaltungen.
See
Central Agency for

the State Administrations of Justice

Zimbardo, Philip, 167-68

Zimmermann,* Walter, 28

Zitzmann, Captain, 33

Zorn,* August, 66

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am extremely grateful to Theodore Raphael, Michael Marrus, Saul Friedländer, Lawrence Langer, Aaron Asher, E. Wayne Carp, and Mark Jensen for their many thoughtful suggestions to improve the manuscript. The shortcomings that remain are, of course, my own responsibility.

Also by Christopher R. Browning

FATEFUL MONTHS: ESSAYS ON THE EMERGENCE OF THE FINAL SOLUTION

THE FINAL SOLUTION AND THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE

Copyright

“One Day in Józefów: Initiation to Mass Murder,” a paper based on a portion of this work, has appeared in Peter Hayes, ed.,
Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World
(Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1991).

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ORDINARY MEN: RESERVE POLICE RATTALION 101 AND THE FINAL SOLUTION IN POLAND. Copyright © 1992. 1998 by Christopher Browning.

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Browning, Christopher R.

     Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland / Christopher R. Browning.

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      Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

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      1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). 2. World War, 1939-1945-Personal narratives, German. 3. World War, 1939-194.5-Atrocities. I. Title.

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