Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
One morning in Jozefow; the Order Police; the Order Police and the Final Solution - Russia 1941; the Order Police and the Final Solution - deportation; reserve police battalion 101; arrival in Poland; initiation to mass murder - the Josefow massacre; reflections on a massacre; Lomazy - the descent of second company; the August deprotations to Treblinka; late-September shootings; the deportations resume; the strange health of Captain Hoffmann; the 'Jew hunt'; the last massacre - 'harvest festival'; aftermath; Germans, Poles and Jews; ordinary men; appendix - shootings and deportations by reserve police battalion 101.
Ordinary Men is a shocking account of how a unit of average, middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.