Order and Annihilation – The Police and the Nazi Regime

Who were these men, and a few women, in the German police who pursued the political and ideological opponents of National Socialism and in the end were often involved in their murder? What mental prerequisites and structural conditions marked the behaviour of members of the police that allowed them to accept the Nazi regime, participate in it, and finally in many cases even become murderers in its name? Who refused to carry out the criminal orders? What motives were crucial to them?
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