The truth about how the murder of more than two million Jews was as
carried out by the Nazis and their allies-for all the world to see
and helped by neighbors-from Father Patrick Desbois, the author of
the award-winning The Holocaust by Bullets. After ten years of
research and 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 his National Jewish Book Award-winning book The Holocaust by
Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the
murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II. Nearly a
decade of further work by his team, drawing on interviews with
neighbors of the Jews, wartime records, and the application of
modern forensic practices to long-hidden grave sites. has resulted
in stunning new findings about the extent and nature of the
genocide. In Broad Daylight documents mass killings in seven
countries formerly part of the Soviet Union that were invaded by
Nazi Germany. It shows how these murders 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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