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The Police State
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41:46 - 47:59 (06:13)

The Nazi state was adept at using regular police to round up Jews and other undesirables, with many police officers recruited to the SS, and SS officers assigned to the police. Many decent men played an active role in the Holocaust, which remains one of its most bitter realities.

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The Holocaust was perpetrated not just by monsters, but by otherwise ordinary men who followed orders and erased their conscience; this podcast reflects on the horrors of such a phenomenon.
41:46 - 44:11 (02:25)
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Holocaust
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The Holocaust was perpetrated not just by monsters, but by otherwise ordinary men who followed orders and erased their conscience; this podcast reflects on the horrors of such a phenomenon.

Chapter
The Police State
Episode
Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible
Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The Nazi state recruited the police forces to become racial warriors, using them to round up Jews and other undesirables without complaint.
44:11 - 46:19 (02:07)
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Nazi Police, Racial Purity
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The Nazi state recruited the police forces to become racial warriors, using them to round up Jews and other undesirables without complaint. Regular police were a key resource for the Nazis in enforcing their ideology of racial purity.

Chapter
The Police State
Episode
Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible
Podcast
Behind the Bastards
ICE has partnered with 59 local agencies in 17 states to train and deputize their officers to enforce immigration laws, resulting in the highest number of at-large arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions in the agency's field office in Pennsylvania.
46:19 - 47:59 (01:40)
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Immigration
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ICE has partnered with 59 local agencies in 17 states to train and deputize their officers to enforce immigration laws, resulting in the highest number of at-large arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions in the agency's field office in Pennsylvania.

Chapter
The Police State
Episode
Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible
Podcast
Behind the Bastards