Treblinka

Ordinary Men Chapter 12: The Deportations Resume

By late September 1942, Reserve Police Battalion 101 had shot roughly 4,600 Jews and 78 Poles, and had helped deport about 15,000 Jews to the gas chambers at Treblinka. Eight separate operations in three months. And they were just getting started.

Ordinary Men Chapter 10: Deportations to Treblinka

The men of Battalion 101 discovered something about themselves in August 1942: it was a lot easier to load people onto trains than to shoot them in the face. And that discovery changed the entire nature of their participation in the Holocaust.