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

by Patrick Desbois

I try to get my audience to keep thinking while learning the facts. And not to separate the “pleasant” world on one side from the knowledge of the criminal acts of the Shoah by bullets on the other side. It took me a long time, many years, to live, breathe, and think with my eyes open. To listen, read, reread, question the neighbors to the crimes and search the archives in order to finally think, at least a little. Not only so that I could stand to know about genocidal acts but mostly so that I would not stop thinking once I knew about them. Not to be removed from oneself. To think while watching, to try to understand these acts, is already to resist. When thought turns off, refuses to hear or see a genocidal act, we become half-conscious, perhaps without being aware of it, a spectator transfixed by the crime.