Germany received regions in western Poland and were annexed as incorporated territories. The inhabitants of these territories were forced to join a resettlement program in which "the 'racial purification' of the incorporated territories desired by Hitler and Himmler was never achieved, but hundreds of thousands of people were pushed here and there like so many pieces on a chessboard in pursuit of their vision of a racially reorganized Eastern Europe” (Browning, p. 39). Jews and other “unfit” people were sent to various ghettos and extermination camps throughout Europe. For Hitler, however, the transfer of the Jews would not have been enough. The infamous “Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe” involved not simply their relocation, but also their murder. The police battalion was ordered to send only male Jews of working age onto the deportation trains, while “women, children and the elderly were simply to be shot on the spot (Browning, p. 55). When Major Trapp revealed to his men their ferocious task, he gave them their only chance to be officially reassigned. “They handed over their rifles and were told to await further assignment from the major” (Browning, p. 57). Men who refused to shoot Jews were often ridiculed for their actions, however, as time passed, more and more people decided to retreat from this brutal task. Trapp did not agree with any of the actions he and his men were forced to take; he “not only offered a choice