What About the “Ordinary Men”?: The German Order Police and the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Union
The Order Police, a branch of the German police apparatus under Heinrich Himmier, performed highly important functions in the area occupied as a consequence of “Operation Barbarossa.” Historians have only started to evalluate how these policemen contributed to the implementation of the “final soluti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1996
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1996, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 134-150 |
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| Summary: | The Order Police, a branch of the German police apparatus under Heinrich Himmier, performed highly important functions in the area occupied as a consequence of “Operation Barbarossa.” Historians have only started to evalluate how these policemen contributed to the implementation of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” On the basis of documents held at former Soviet archives, this article identifies the main characteristics of Order Police involvement in the systematic mass murder of Soviet Jews. The available evidence suggests that situational as well as long-term factors played a key role in transforming supposedly “ordinary men” into executors of genocidal policy. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/10.2.134 |