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makes the point that to fulfill this task would necessitate a vast mobilization of soldiers to carry out and fulfill these acts, and that this mobilization of troops for the purpose of carrying out genocide occurred at the same time when a great numbers of German soldiers and material were ready to fight in the battle for Stalingrad. Through the next few chapters, the knowledge that Browning instilled in me is the origins of the Order Police which includes the Reserve Police Battalion 101and the role they played in the Holocaust Genocide. The formation of the ordering police was an attempt from Germany to create a military alike army of police who possesses the same training and equipment soldiers get in the military. After several attempts to destabilize the Treaty of Versailles, the election of the Nazi party into power, and the incorporation of police paramilitary units into the regular army, the Order Police gradually came into being. “The Order Police grew in prolific numbers to an estimate of 244,500 by the middle of 1940” 2 . …show more content…

Initially, Browning first mentions the orders handed down from the highest class in Hitler’s Germany, which gave approval to kill the innocent civilians on the Eastern Front. This was the “Commissar Order,” which made communist officials in the army, along with those in civil service and essentially anyone who was suspected of being “Anti-German,” for that matter, an accusation leveled at the Jews) exempt of prisoner of war status and subject to immediate execution” 3. After reading Browning's work and becoming enlightened with a greater level of understanding of the origins of the Order Police, and the imperative role they played in the genocide, the last significant way in which the book expanded my knowledge on the holocaust is by Chapter 5

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