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"---I wrote to Prof. Browning, June 22, and again on October 5, 1992, to ask these questions, among several more. (I have changed the tense from the historic present to the past.)

"(3) Of the Jews whom the Germans shot to death (for Reserve Police Battalion 101 at least 38,000 in number [pp. 142 and 191]), have their corpses been uncovered, counted, identified (in so far as possible), and cause of death determined?

"(A) P. 12, paragraph 2. Police Battalion 309 shot an estimated 2000?2200 Jews at Bialystok, June 27, 1941. The following day the corpses were hauled to a mass grave and buried. Has the grave been looked for? Has it been found?

"(B) Pp. 60, 61, and 191. The Jews, at least 1500 in number, whom 101, July 13, 1942, shot in a forest several kilometers from Jozefow (p. 60, last paragraph), their bodies left unburied (p. 69): anything ever found ... of their remains?

"(C) Pp. 80, 83, 84, and 191. The Jews, at least 1700 in number, whom 101, August 17, 1942, shot in a mass grave in a woods near Lomazy, and covered over: anything found?

"(D) Pp. 98?100. Battalion 101, September 22, 1942, shot 200?300 Jews of Serokomla. who fell into gravel pits, less than one kilometer from the village, and were left uncovered: anything found ... of their remains?

"(E) P. 117. Battalion 101 shot 1100?1600 Jews in a single (unspecified) day of October, 1942, 'in a woods beyond the edge of town [Konskowola]': anything found of their remains?"

I continued with two further questions, which I reproduce in modified form.

(F) Pages 137?141. Battalion 101, November 3, 1943, helped to shoot to death 16,500 to 18,000 Jews, who, assembled at the Majdanek concentration camp, were made to lie in zig?zag trenches. The dead apparently were burned at Majdanek (p. 141, paragraph 2). Why were these Jews not killed in the reputed gas chambers of Majdanek? Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Vol. 3, page 939, asserts that at Majdanek carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide were the two poison gases used.

(G) Pages 139?141. Battalion 101, November 4, 1943 (the day after the alleged preceding event), helped to shoot to death at Poniatowa 14,000 Jews. The corpses were burned out of doors on metal grills and thereafter buried (p. 141, paragraph 3). What has been found of their remains?

My last question read,
"(4) P. 49, paragraph 1. What is your documentary proof or who is your authority for your statement, '... Himmler confided to the SS and Police Leader in Lublin, Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's intention to murder the Jews of Europe as well'? The statement lacks a Footnote."

I ended my two letters, "I shall appreciate your kind reply, Prof. Browning." He never had the kindness to reply. ---"

"---Ordinary Men achieved much acclaim but was denounced by Daniel Goldhagen for missing what Goldhagen considered the importance of German culture for causing the Holocaust. In an extremely hostile book review in the April 1992 edition of The New Republic, Goldhagen called Ordinary Men a book of no scholarly value and accused Browning of manufacturing his evidence. Goldhagen's 1996 book Hitler's Willing Executioners was largely written to rebut Browning's book.---"

"---At the 2000 libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt (sued by David Irving) Browning was one of the leading witnesses for the defence. The American journalist D.D. Guttenplan considered Browning to be more the effective witnesses for Lipstadt.---"

Dear Mr. Renk,

The tone of our correspondence seems to have changed from exchange to interrogation, in which you feel entitled to demand answers at your convenience to an unending series of questions. Now it is my turn to pose some questions. Who are you? What is your agenda?

Christopher Browning

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It rests very largely on the "investigation and legal prosecution of Reserve Police Battalion 101," which began in 1962 and ended in 1972.6 "In the case of ... 101, ??? there are few contemporary documents and none that deal specifically with its killing activities."7 "The interrogations of 210 men from ??? 101" "constitute the prime source for this study."8 Of these 210, fourteen men were indicted, and eventually three were sentenced to prison, one to eight years, another to four, the third to three and one?half years.9 In view of the enormity of the crimes that Reserve Police Battalion 101 supposedly helped to commit, and of the hysteria that soaks the subject of the so?called Holocaust, few were indicted, fewer still were sentenced. The court, perhaps, was skeptical of the "evidence."
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I enclosed with my second letter to the professor a photocopy of a news story and photograph of skeletal remains, unearthed in 1992 at Caciulati, Romania, of those whom Communist secret police, some four decades earlier, are believed to have murdered?10 It must be stressed that, likewise, the skeletons of those whom the Reserve Police Battalions purportedly killed in the early 1940s will still be there where buried, IF THEY WERE, INDEED, KILLED.

I sought out the indexes for The New York Times, 1945 to the first nine months of 1992. 1 assumed that if any of these reputed mass graves had been uncovered The Times would would have reported the discovery, most eagerly. I searched each volume of the indexes under these nine possible entries: "Bialystok," "Jozefow," "Konskowola," "Lomazy," "Lublin," "Majdanek," "Poniatowa," "Reserve Police Battalion 101," and "Serokomla." I found nothing. The New York Times, to all appearances, has never reported that a mass grave has been found at any of these sites, nor has it ever printed a word about Battalion 101.

I also searched, September 12, 1993, under these same nine entries, the electronic data base InfoTrac (Information Access Company), which indexes some hundreds of periodicals, The New York Times included. Again, nothing found.

The fourteen members of the Battalion who were indicted went on trial in 1967; their appeal was concluded in 1972, over two decades ago. Never in his book does Prof. Browning tell us that a mass grave was searched for or discovered or investigated in the decade, 1962 to 1972, that the reputed events were under official scrutiny and judicial prosecution, or since that decade. In a period of over 30 years apparently not one search was conducted to find something. Never in his book does the professor tell us that even a single skeleton was unearthed and examined. Why not? What is more obvious, what is more essential, than to search there where thousands are supposedly buried? German authorities did not search ?? unlike at Caciulati, where peasants and police sought AND found ?? because they feared that they would not find!

Two of the death tolls that Prof. Browning quotes, those for Majdanek and Poniatowa, are remarkably large. In two days, November 3 and 4, 1943, Battalion 101 supposedly assists at the killing of at least 30,500 Jews. The event presumably occurs in the daylight hours, for we are not told otherwise. At the north latitude of these two towns, which is 51 degrees and 18 minutes, there will be in early November about nine and one?half hours from sunrise to sunset. In altogether nineteen hours, 30,500 Jews are shot to death, one by one by one, thirty thousand five hundred times over. An unlikely tale of itself, but patently absurd when we remember that the purported event of November 3 occurred at Majdanek, where the apostles of the so?called Holocaust insist that there were gas chambers. How absurd to shoot to death what gas chambers were built to kill ? The story is a clumsy admission, which escaped Prof. Browning's notice, that there were no gas chambers at Majdanek.

He tabulates on page 17 the death tolls as supposedly reported over a period of 48 days by German police stationed in Russia. The archive at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, holds these reports,11 some tolls of which are curiously and suspiciously repetitious. Police Regiment South, August 27, 1941, shoots 549 Jews; Battalion 314 of that same regiment shoots that same day 69 Jews; Police Regiment South the next day shoots 369 Jews. The same regiment on September 4 shoots 4,144 Jews, the next day 144 Jews. The numbers are fictitious. The reports themselves may be spurious.---"