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

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.