Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Free Audiobook Download by Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men is a gripping, nuanced account of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a police unit that committed the Holocaust in occupied Poland. It's also a cautionary tale about how ordinary people can be led to commit atrocity, especially when they are encouraged to think of themselves as acting on behalf of their nation and its national interests. In fact, the Nazi regime had been poised for this development since before Hitler came to power.

Ordinary Men is a book about Reserve Police Battalion 101, a special police unit that was formed in 1939 and tasked with finding the German war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland tells the story of these murders as they happened in real time.

Christopher Browning during the early days of World War II, Reserve Police Battalion 101 was given the task of committing a genocide on behalf of the Third Reich. The unit's role was to kill all Jews and Polish intellectuals in Pomerania.

The Reserve Police Battalion 101, who were seconded to the SS during WWII, were the first group of German officers to be allowed into Poland and their involvement with the Final Solution, followed by a reign of terror leading up to the deportations.

This book tells the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101, made up of volunteers from throughout Nazi-occupied Poland. They were under the command of SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann and led by Captain Franz Stangl. Throughout the course of their war against Polish resistance fighters, they murdered over 100,000 Jews in the country's ghettos and concentration camps.

In July 1942, in occupied Poland, the SS established Reserve Police Battalion 101 in a suburb of Warsaw. Men from this unit participated in the first mass deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Treblinka, where they were all gassed. The battalion's activities were shrouded in secrecy and protected by Nazi propaganda.