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Police Battalions: Liies, Killings, and Motites

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Police Battalion	Location	Dale	Number of Victim
3'4	Dnepropetnnsk	Noeember 1941	1 ,ooos
	Kharkov	January 1942	10,000 20,000
3*6	Białystok	July 12-13, *94'	3,000
	MogiIev	Noeember 1941	3.700
	Bobruisk	End of 1942	2,000
320	Kamencts- Podolski	August 27-2N. 1941	23,600
•	Rovno	Noeember 7-8, 1941	21,000
	Kostopol	July 14,1942	5,000
	Pińsk	Octobcr 29-Noeembcr 1, 1942	16,200
322	Białystok	July 12-13, 1941	3,000
	Mogiłce	Octobcr 19, 1941	3,700
	Mińsk	Noeember 1941	19,000
	Mińsk	July 28-30, 1942	9,000
Mounted Police
Third Scpiadron	Majdanek	Novembcr3, 1943	16,000
	Poniatowa	Noeember 3, 1943	14,000
	Trawniki	November3, 1943	12,000
Motori/ed Gendarmc
Battalion	Majdanek	Noeember 3, 1943	—N b 3 0
	Poniatowa	Noeember 3, 1943	14.000
Police Guard Battalion I
(Posen)	Stry	Summer 1943	1,000
	1 )rogobych	•943	1,000
	Rogatin	*943	cleared ghetto
	Tarnopol	Summer 1943	cleared ghetto
Police Reservc Company
Cologiyc	Kielce	August 20-24, 1942	20,000
	Warsaw ghetto	May 1943	1,000S

The men of thcsc police battalions had unequivocal proof that they were beingaskcd to take part not just in some harsh military measure, ho\vevcr just or unjust, such as the killing of one hundred “hostages” from a town in ret-ribution against the local population for having allegedly aided partisans. W hen slaughtering thousands of peoplc or sending entire communities packed in freight cars to dcath factories, thesc Germans did not and could not