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    In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
    In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
    In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
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    In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

    Written by Father Patrick Desbois

    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

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    In 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, based on wartime documents, interviews with locals, and the application of modern forensic practices on long-hidden gravesites. Nearly a decade of further work by his team, drawing on interviews with 5,000 neighbors of the Jews, has resulted in stunning new findings about the extent and nature of the genocide.

    The mass killings took place across the Eastern Front, in seven countries formerly part of the Soviet Union invaded by Nazi Germany. They followed a secret template, or repeatable script, that included a timetable and involved local inhabitants in the mechanics of death to ensure complicity, whether it was to cook for the killers; to clear, dig, and cover the graves; to witness their Jewish neighbors being marched off; or to take part in the slaughter.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781543655063
    Author

    Father Patrick Desbois

    Father Patrick Desbois is president of Yahad–In Unum and is the Braman Endowed Professor of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Holocaust by Bullets, winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award, and has received numerous honors for his groundbreaking work on the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Humanitarian Award from the US Holocaust Museum, the Lantos Human Rights Prize, and the Légion d'Honneur. He resides in Washington, DC, and Paris, France.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent work. I don't have the words to describe the effect this book had on me. Unfathomable behavior by human beings, descendents of which --not specific people but, rather, humans as a whole-- clearly have not learned from history. ISIS is the modern version of the NAZI "schutzmann." Again, this book should be a required text for high school.

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    • 5/5
      Patrick Desbois does wonderful work for the history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Territories

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