Обычные люди: 101-й полицейский батальон и «окончательное решение еврейского вопроса»

Osnovnye sobytii͡a Kholokosta, kogda pogiblo okolo poloviny ego zhertv, proizoshli s marta 1942 goda do fevrali͡a 1943 goda v Polʹshe. Kak nat͡sistam udalosʹ organizovatʹ v takoĭ korotkiĭ srok stolʹ massovye ubiĭstva? Otkuda v slozhnyĭ dli͡a Germanii period voĭny dli͡a ėtogo nashlisʹ li͡udskie resursy? V poiske otvetov na ėti voprosy istorik Kristofer Brauning izuchil arkhiv Federalʹnogo t͡sentra rassledovanii͡a prestupleniĭ nat͡sional-sot͡sializma, gde obnaruzhil sudebnoe reshenie po delu 101-go rezervnogo polit͡seĭskogo batalʹona, uchastvovavshego v massovykh raspravakh nad evrei͡ami v okruge Li͡ublin. Delo bylo osnovano na bolʹshom kolichestve svidetelʹskikh pokazaniĭ, porazhai͡ushchikh svoeĭ otkrovennostʹi͡u. Po priznanii͡u samogo Brauninga, nikogda prezhde on ne nabli͡udal kartinu uzhasai͡ushchikh prestupleniĭ Kholokosta, skvozʹ kotorui͡u stolʹ i͡avno progli͡adyvali chelovecheskie lit͡sa ubiĭt͡s. Na osnove izuchenii͡a materialov dela napisana ėta kniga. V neĭ Brauning rasskazyvaet istorii͡u podrazdelenii͡a i opisyvaet, kak samye obychnye li͡udi dobrovolʹno stali professionalʹnymi ubiĭt͡sami.

The main events of the Holocaust, when about half of its victims died, took place from March 1942 to February 1943 in Poland. How did the Nazis manage to organize such mass killings in such a short period of time? Where did the human resources come from during the difficult period of the war for Germany? In search of answers to these questions, historian Christopher Browning studied the archive of the Federal Center for the Investigation of Crimes of National Socialism, where he found a court decision in the case of the 101st Reserve Police Battalion involved in the massacre of Jews in the Lublin district. The case was based on a large number of witness statements, striking in their frankness. Browning himself admitted that he had never before witnessed the horrific crimes of the Holocaust, through which the human faces of the murderers were so clearly visible. Based on the study of the case materials, this book has been written. In it, Browning tells the story of the unit and describes how the most ordinary people voluntarily became professional killers.