How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In
Broad Daylight Based on a decade of work on the Holocaust by
Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which
has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the
murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites,
many of them unmarked. One key finding: Genocide does not happen
without the neighbors. The neighbors are instrumental to the crime.
In Broad Daylight documents the mass killings Jews in seven
countries formerly part of the Soviet Union that were invaded by
Nazi Germany. Drawing on interviews with neighbors of the Jews,
wartime records, and the application of modern forensic practices
to long-hidden grave sites, It shows how these murders, this
Holocaust by Bullets, followed a template, or script, which
included a timetable that was duplicated from place to place. Far
from being kept secret, the killings were done in broad daylight,
before witnesses. Often, they were treated as public spectacle. The
Nazis deliberately involved the local inhabitants in the mechanics
of death-whether it was to cook for the killers, to dig or cover
the graves, to witness their Jewish neighbors being marched off, or
to take part in the slaughter. They availed themselves of local
people and the structures of Soviet life in order to make the
Eastern Holocaust happen. Narrating in lucid, powerful prose that
has the immediacy of a crime report, Father Desbois assembles a
chilling account of how, concretely, these events took place in
village after village, from the selection of the date to the
twenty-four-hour period in which the mass murders unfolded. Today,
such groups as ISIS put into practice the Nazis' lessons on making
genocide efficient. The book includes an historical introduction by
Andrej Umansky, research fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law
and Criminal Procedure, University of Cologne, Germany, and
historical and legal advisor to Yahad-In Unum.
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