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Desbois, Patrick, In broad daylight: the secret procedures behind the Holocaust by bullets / Father Patrick Desbois, with a historical introduction by Andrej Umansky, translated from the French by Hilary Reyl and Calvert Barksdale. First paperback edition: New York, 2021
Dreyer, Nicolas (2022): Desbois, Patrick, In broad daylight: the secret procedures behind the Holocaust by bullets / Father Patrick Desbois, with a historical introduction by Andrej Umansky, translated from the French by Hilary Reyl and Calvert Barksdale. First paperback edition: New York, 2021, in: Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität, S. 465–472.
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Year of publication:
2022
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Moreshet : journal for the study of the Holocaust and antisemitism. 19 (2022), S. 465-472. - ISSN: 1565-477X
Year of first publication:
2022
Language:
English
Abstract:
Book review of Father Patrick Desbois, "In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets." Moreshet, 19 (2022): 465-472.
Father Desbois’ book In "Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the
Holocaust by Bullets" is much more than a publication of enormous historical
research on crimes committed by the local Eastern European population
in aiding the German Shoah. In his work, Desbois ultimately pursues the
question of what turns human beings, specifically neighbors, into willing cogs
of an inhumane killing machinery. His research asks specific questions: they
concern the roles these neighbors played in the Nazi genocide, the reasons that
possibly made them collaborate or refuse collaboration with the Nazis, and
the organization, routines, and schedules of an average execution day.
Father Desbois’ book In "Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the
Holocaust by Bullets" is much more than a publication of enormous historical
research on crimes committed by the local Eastern European population
in aiding the German Shoah. In his work, Desbois ultimately pursues the
question of what turns human beings, specifically neighbors, into willing cogs
of an inhumane killing machinery. His research asks specific questions: they
concern the roles these neighbors played in the Nazi genocide, the reasons that
possibly made them collaborate or refuse collaboration with the Nazis, and
the organization, routines, and schedules of an average execution day.
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Osteuropa
Judenvernichtung
Keywords:
Holocaust; Shoah; "Holocaust by bullets"; Eastern Europe; occupied Soviet Union; Russia; Ukraine; Belarus; Nazi killing routines; collaboration; behavior of the local population and neighbors
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Review
Activation date:
April 27, 2022
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