I felt that the author had based this book on the testimonies of the men of Reserve Police battalion 101, which was a unit of the German Order Police. The book, I thought, provided me a graphic portrayal of Police Battalion 101's involvement in the Holocaust. ... A picture is painted very vividly of the brutality these men inflicted upon the Polish Jews. ... I felt a little disappointed by the fact that very little was discussed about the interaction between members of Reserve Police Battalion 101. I also discovered that in the beginning part of the book there seems to be too much de...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. ... The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was formed in May of 1941 when the Police Battalion 101 was practically completely dispersed due to the reassignment of many of the men to other units. ... This is why the name was changed to the Reserve Police Battalion 101. ... These men were considered to be too old for the German army but not to old for reserve police duty. ... Each Jew was marched by a man of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 into the forest. ...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. ... The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was formed in May of 1941 when the Police Battalion 101 was practically completely dispersed due to the reassignment of many of the men to other units. ... This is why the name was changed to the Reserve Police Battalion 101. ... These men were considered to be too old for the German army but not to old for reserve police duty. ... Each Jew was marched by a man of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 into the forest. ...

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Unnecessary death, brutality, abuse of power – all are injustices that occurred due to apartheid and in Douglass' life. ... The protesters were causing no harm to the area, just fighting for equal rights, when the police shot and killed many for the only reason of protesting. ... Covey's response to Douglass passing out shows the brutality of slavery. ... The punishments Douglass and non-white South Africans received outline the brutality of apartheid and slavery. ... Injustices such as unnecessary death, abuse of power, and brutality all characterize apartheid and the oppres...

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The bank was closed and she ends up being a part of police brutality through blowing up a bus. ... She feels they should unite in order to stop the government from exercising their brutality. These girls are experiencing brutality at such a young age and in turn they are loosing their childhood, something they can never have again. ... While American teenagers are working about prom their fighting for their lives and the lives of their family and while it is easy to give up on life and surrender they become weaponries to combat the brutality with hope for a better life.  ...

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Due to the lack of evidence police could not link Gacy to the missing child. ... After the police showed back at the house to find more on Gacy one of the police began to smell the horrible stench that would blow through the house. ... Police later found four more bodies floating down the local river. ... Gacy brutality raped and murder thirty-three young men from the age of nine to the age of twenty-one. ... Gacy told the police when being arrested, " The only thing the police can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license."" ...

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Among these are that capital punishment is "cruel and usual", "epitomizes the tragic inefficacy and brutality of violence", "denies due process of law", "violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection", "is not a viable form of crime control", "wastes resources" and "is a violent spectacle of official homicide" (Bedau). ... In fact, leftists argue that it embodies the appalling inefficiency and brutality of violence rather than a civilized solution to difficult social problems. ... A system in which journalism students are able to prove that the police prosecutors, defense lawye...

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IV. Introduction What is this whole idea about the Death Penalty? Is it really effective? " The death penalty is commonly defined as a punishment inflicted upon a criminal for a crime that they have committed." To some it is an inhumane way of solving crime. In most cases there is "usually a bru...

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