Vernichtung : die Deutsche Ordnungspolizei und der Judenmord im Warschauer Ghetto 1940-43

Describes the organization, actions, and crimes against Jews committed by German police battalions in the Warsaw ghetto. The Ordnungspolizei played a significant role in the persecutory activities of the Nazis in the ghetto, such as in the deportations, mass executions, assassinations, and "Jew hunting". Pp. 73-135 examine the specific battalions which served in Warsaw. A close analysis of the activities of the infamous Battalion 61 and of the nature of its members gives rise to the question whether those policemen were psychopaths, dominated by a blind hatred of the Jews, by the cult of death, and by extreme sadism. Met lit. opg. en reg. 288 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.