In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets Contributor(s): Desbois, Father Patrick (Author), Umansky, Andrej (Introduction by), Reyl, Hilary (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1948924625 ISBN-13: 9781948924627 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Military - World War Ii |
Dewey: 940.531 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust - Cultural Region - Polish - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
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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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Umansky, Andrej: - Andrej Umansky is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, University of Cologne, Germany, and is historical and legal advisor to Yahad-in-Unum. He obtained a master's degree in French and German law from the Universities of Cologne and Paris I and another master's degree in the history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe from the University of Paris IV. In 2016, he finished his PhD at the University Amiens, France, about the Holocaust in the Northern Caucasus in 1942- 43.Desbois, Father Patrick: - Father Patrick Desbois is president of Yahad in Unum and holds an endowed professorship 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, including the Humanitarian Award from the US Holocaust Museum. He resides in Washington, DC, and Paris, France. |