Abstract
It is entirely banal but nonetheless true to say that criminology has one essential objective, namely to understand or to explain why people commit crimes. That goal applied to the problem of crimes of the state becomes more complicated for various reasons. Sometimes, for example, ordinary men and women find themselves being asked to do terrible things. Like the five hundred or so ordinary, middle-aged German men who were members of the ‘Order Police’ (Ordnungpolizei) sent in behind the German Army (Wehrmacht) after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. These men were members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 on duty in occupied Poland: all had been rejected for regular army service because, having been born between 1901 and 1910, they were deemed too old.
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