borjastick wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 3:40 pm
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I have no doubt Father Desbois was a decent man who was motivated by his faith and a desire for humanity to deal with its darkest moments. But he was very naive and trusting of lots of locals who pointed up the road or stood in a wooded location and made claims about shootings and jews disappearing, but he never did hard research or excavations or asked for serious evidence.
In typical so-called revisionist style, with no training or experience of gathering evidence yourself, so your critique of others is mere inexperienced opinion, you have, not surprisingly, misrepresented the work of Desbois.
https://www.memorialdelashoah.org/uploa ... esbois.htm
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Archival Research:
The archive reserves of German tribunals and Soviet commissions have revealed initial information regarding the massacres committed by the Nazis in the Soviet Union, and notably in Ukraine between 1941 and 1944. Yahad’s team has been able to discover the exact missions given to German troops concerning the treatment of Jews, and the localization of certain massacre sites. It has provided them with a base on which to start work at ground level.
Visiting the sites and recording witness accounts:
Father Desbois and a team of experts regularly travel across the regions of Ukraine, intent on identifying witnesses of the genocide still alive today. At the time of events, these witnesses were curious children or adolescents who either followed the columns of Jews heading towards execution sites or observed the executions while hidden. Others were amongst those requisitioned by the Germans, in complicity with local authorities, to take part in digging or recovering the pits, and transporting victims or materials. They all testify, often for the first time, after sixty years of silence.
Three concordant testimonies recorded independently have led Yahad – In Unum to discover the localization of execution sites not known of until today.
Identifying mass Jewish graves and collecting ballistic proof:
On indications given by witnesses, the site of the grave is located, and its GPS position noted. The German cartridge cases are dated, and all other ballistic proof is gathered before the grave is camouflaged, to prevent tomb raiders profaning the site.
The presence of these German cartridge cases around the communal graves is determining evidence that executions were perpetrated by mobile Nazi units. Along with such evidence, the team picks up several personal objects belonging to the victims: glasses, children’s games, or jewelry which escaped the killers’ avarice. Five hundred execution sites have already been identified."
That is how any trained investigator would go about determining if mass graves exist and their location. The only work not done, has been to dig into the graves, which would require permissions, need experienced people to excavate and cost of a lot of money.