Reserve Police Battalion 101

It was above all a reaction to the sheer horror of the killing process itself.

If Reserve Police Battalion 101 was to continue to provide vital manpower for the implementation of the final solution in the Lublin District, the psychological burden on the men had to be taken into account and alleviated.

In subsequent actions, two vital changes were introduced and henceforth, with some notable exceptions, adhered to.

First, most of the future operations of Reserve Police Battalion 101 involved ghetto clearing and deportation, not outright massacre on the spot.

The policemen were thus relieved of the immediate horror of the killing process, which, for deportees from the northern Loveland district, was carried out in the extermination camp at Treblinka.

Second, while deportation was a horrifying procedure characterized by the terrible coercive violence needed to drive people onto the death trains, as well as the systematic killing of those who could not be marched to the trains, these actions were generally undertaken jointly by units of Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Tronikis, SS-trained auxiliaries from Soviet territories.

recruited from the POW camps and usually assigned the very worst parts of the ghetto clearing and deportation.

Concern over the psychological demoralization resulting from Josefo is indeed the most likely explanation of that mysterious incident in Alexandro several days later.

In the Loveland district itself, therefore, deportations to the extermination camps did not resume in early July.

It was during this enforced lull in the final solution in the General Government that Reserve Police Battalion 101 arrived in the Loveland district.

On June 20, 1942, the battalion received orders for a special action in Poland.

The nature of this special action was not specified in the written orders, but the men were led to believe that they would be performing guard duty.

Despite the temporary lull in the killing, SS and police leader Odilo Globoknik and his Operation Reinhardt staff were not about to allow the newly arrived police battalion to remain entirely inactive in regard to the Loveland Jews.

If the killing could not be resumed, the process of consolidating the victims in transit ghettos and camps could be.

For most of the policemen of Reserve Police Battalion 101, the searing memory of the subsequent action in Josefo blotted out lesser events that had occurred during their four-week stay south of Lublin.

However, a few did remember taking part in this consolidation process, collecting Jews in smaller settlements and moving them to larger ghettos and camps.

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Men from Reserve Police Battalion 101 were involved in various phases of the Hamburg deportations.

The collection point for the deportations was the Freemason Lodge house on the Moorwide, which had been confiscated by the security police, flanked by the university library and an apartment block, within several hundred yards of the heavily used domtor train station the collection point was scarcely an inconspicuous location out of the sight of hamburg citizens some order police of battalion 101 provided guard duty at the freemason lodge house during where the jews were collected registered and loaded on trucks to the Sternschanz train station.

Other men of Battalion 101 guarded the station, where the Jews were loaded onto the trains.

From the time of liberation to the present, they have participated very amply in the extermination of these parasites.

It is, however, incomprehensible to them, as I was especially able to discover from Latvian railway personnel, why the Germans bring their Jews to Latvia instead of exterminating them in their own country.

In June 1942, Reserve Police Battalion 101 was assigned another tour of duty in Poland.

By then, only a few non-commissioned officers who had been on the first Polish action remained, and less than 20% of the men had been on the second in the Warthogon.