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  • In Broad Daylight

  • The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets
  • By: Father Patrick Desbois
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)
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In Broad Daylight

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.

©2015 Librairie Arthème Fayard (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. English-language translation © 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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how horrible humans are

sad and poingant book hard to hear in places but needs to be said so we font forget

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Astounding but Horrifying

This is an interesting but horrifying account of the Genocide caused by the Nazis and collaborators outside of the usual Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp stories I’ve read / listened too.

The sheer number of interviews done by Father Desbois, his team and others is astonishing.. The account interviews range from normal villagers who had nothing to do with this part of the Genocide to the diggers who dug the graves under supervision to the exact specifications of the Nazis.

Each chapter deals with different people from the villages picking up the Jewish people, the diggers who dug the mass graves, to the people who cooked for the Nazis and others ( the list of actions of the people in each chapter involved is too long to list here )

Father Desbois does an excellent job conveying how this Genocidal Mass Murder Machine worked and how normal people got dragged into it and how some people willingly went without question.

There were people who refused to help the Nazis with their plan which makes you ask the question…what would you have done ? I honesty can’t answer that question and I don’t think anyone in the day and age could answer…why ? Because we weren’t there at the time under those circumstances.

The narration was very good for this title, pronouncing difficult words with ease of a professional.

If you’re interested in the Holocaust and want to learn something new, relevant and interestingly different from most Holocaust stories I’d highly encourage you to check this title out.

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