Shocking Article on New Holocaust Discoveries

[Sentinel For Truth]

Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution

By MARIA DANILOVA and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press

"A Holocaust By Bullets"

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Desbois says he has interviewed more than 800 eyewitnesses and pinpointed hundreds of mass graves strewn around dusty fields in the former Soviet Union. The result is a book, "The Holocaust by Bullets," and an exhibition through March 15 at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Brought to Ukraine by a twist of fate, Desbois has spent seven years trying to document the truth, honor the dead, relieve witnesses of their pain and guilt and prevent future acts of genocide.

Some 1.4 million of Soviet Ukraine's 2.4 million Jews were executed, starved to death or died of disease during the war. Another 550,000-650,000 Soviet Jews were killed in Belarus and up to 140,000 in Russia, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most of the victims were women, children and the elderly.

Begun after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the slaughter by bullets was the opening phase of what became the Nazis' Final Solution with its factories of death operating in Auschwitz and other camps, all in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Desbois devotes his 233-page book, published by Palgrave Macmillan in August, to his work in Ukraine, where he says he has uncovered over 800 mass extermination sites, more than two-thirds of them previously unknown.

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Read the full article here:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_eu/eu_holocaust_by_bullets

[Rubystars]

It's upsetting and tragic that people died like that but at least there is more evidence to throw in the faces of the Holocaust deniers. Of course they'll just find some bull crap argument against this too.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

It's upsetting and tragic that people died like that but at least there is more evidence to throw in the faces of the Holocaust deniers. Of course they'll just find some bull crap argument against this too.

Holocaust deniers don't seriously believe the Shoah didn't happen. Everyone knows that.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

It was at the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942 that the nazis (ym"sh) shifted their method of extermination from firearms to gas.  At Auschwitz in December 1941, the nazis began experimenting with gas on Russian prisoners of war.  After the conference at Wannsee on January 20, 1942, the approach to final solution was set out.

Before gas execution became the main method of murder, Einsatsgruppen (units of mostly volunteer nazi murderers) went along eastern Europe gathering up Jews from small villages and shooting them in large pits.  This has been known about since the beginning.  What Desbois is attempting to contribute to the historiography of the holocaust is the knowledge of new mass graves.  I believe that there are still many more to be found.  But this is nothing new.  We have many pictures of the Einsatsgruppen committing their murders.

Ironically, the main reason that the main method of killing Jews was changed to gas, was that the mass killings of the Einsatsgruppen was taking a psychological toll on the murderers!  I pray that there is ultimate justice, though I can't conceive of how G-d will balance the scales.