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[[File:101 inspection.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px200px|Police Battalion 101 being inspected, circa 1941.]]
In the preface to his book, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062303023/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062303023&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4b4bce855a1498173d8214535c46adca Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland]'', Christopher R. Browning makes it abundantly clear that “Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving.”<ref>Christopher R. Browning, ''Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland'' (New York: Harper Perennial, 1998), xx.</ref>