Summary of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

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On July 13, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were ordered to arrest and execute 1,800 Jews in the Polish town of Józefów. Major Wilhelm Trapp, the battalion commander, made an unusual offer: if any of the men did not want to participate, he would let them leave.