“These were men who had known political standards and moral norms other than those of the Nazis. Most came from Hamburg, by reputation one of the least nazified cities in Germany, and the majority came from a social class that had been anti-Nazi in its political culture. These men would not seem to have been a very promising group from which to recruit mass murderers on behalf of the Nazi vision of a racial utopia free of Jews.”*-------------------------------/
*Browning, Christopher R.. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (p. 48). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.