Germany received areas of western Poland and was annexed as incorporated territories. The inhabitants of these territories were forced to participate in a resettlement program in which "the 'racial cleansing' of the incorporated territories desired by Hitler and Himmler was never achieved, but hundreds of thousands of people were displaced as so many of pieces on a chessboard in pursuit of their inhabitants. their vision of a racially reorganized Eastern Europe” (Browning, p. 39). Jews and other “unfits” were sent to various ghettos and death camps throughout Europe. But for Hitler, the transfer of the Jews would not be enough. The infamous “Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe” involved not only displacing them, but also murdering them. The police battalion was ordered to send only Jewish men of working age on the deportation trains, while "women, children and the elderly were simply to be shot on the spot" (Browning, p. 55). ). When Major Trapp gave his men their heinous task, he gave them just one chance to be officially reassigned. “They surrendered their rifles and were told to wait for a new mission from the major” (Browning, p. 57). Men who refused to shoot Jews were often mocked for their actions, but over time more and more decided to withdraw from this brutal task. Trapp did not agree with any of the actions he and his men were forced to perform; he "did not only offer a choice