way to attain the systematic removal of the Jew from Germany wasstill unclear. The German policies would have to: 1) Turn the Jews intosocially dead beings, and 2) Remove the Jew as thoroughly andpermanently from social and from physical contact with the German people.To attain the desired affect, the German government instituted these policesand measures: (in chronological order)1) Verbal Assault 2) Physical Assault 3) Legal measures to isolate the Jew 4) Driving them to emigrate5) Forced deportation and resettlement 6) Physical separation in the Ghettos 7) Killing by starvation and disease 8) Slave Labor as a surrogate for death 9) Genocide by mass shooting, gassing, etc. 10)Death marchesChapter 5: The Agents and Machinery of DestructionIn this chapter, Goldhagen attempts to define a perpetrator of genocidalkilling. He arrives at the connotation, that a perpetrator is anyone thatworked in an institution of genocidal killing, all those that took the lives ofJews , all those that facilitated the murder of Jews, including those churchofficials that identified persons as Jew or non-Jew, the Schreibtischtater (thedesk murderer) that established the transport schedules, all railroad workersthat sent the trains to their ominous destinations, and the indictmentcontinues... In fact, Goldhagen suggests that the list of perpetrators may runinto millions due to the ordinary Germans complicity during the Holocaust. In conclusion, the complicity of the ordinary German can be best witnessedin the genocidal institution of the Ordnungpolizei, the Police Battalions.Part III: Police Battalions: Ordinary Germans, Willing Killers Chapter 6: Police Battalions: Agents of GenocideThe Police Battalions served as an...
