The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington launched a program to educate officers about the Holocaust and the role of police in a democratic society. The program seeks to convey to new recruits that the German police in the Nazi era “were ordinary people whose decisions to join the Nazi party and murder innocent victims in its name were often motivated, not by hatred of Jews, but by other considerations such as self-promotion,” said Joan Ringelheim, director of the museum’s education division.
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