@article{1404023,
      recid = {1404023},
      author = {Beorn, Waitman Wade,},
      title = {Marching into darkness the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in  Belarus / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts :},
      pages = {1 online resource (314 pages) :},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {"On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the  Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. While  Nazi death squads routinely carried out mass executions on  the Eastern Front, this particular atrocity was not the  work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army  unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness  is a bone-chilling expose of the ordinary footsoldiers who  participated in the Final Solution on a daily basis.  Although scholars have exploded the myth that the Wehrmacht  played no significant part in the Holocaust, a concrete  picture of its involvement at the local level has been  lacking. Among the crimes Waitman Wade Beorn unearths are  forced labor, sexual violence, and graverobbing, though a  few soldiers refused to participate and even helped Jews.  By meticulously reconstructing the German army's activities  in Belarus in 1941, Marching into Darkness reveals in stark  detail how the army willingly fulfilled its role as an  agent of murder on a massive scale. Early efforts at  improvised extermination progressively became much more  methodical, with some army units going so far as to  organize "Jew hunts." Beorn also demonstrates how the  Wehrmacht used the pretense of anti-partisan warfare as a  subterfuge by reporting murdered Jews as partisans. Through  archival research into military and legal records, survivor  testimonies, and eyewitness interviews, Beorn paints a  searing portrait of a professional army's descent into ever  more intimate participation in genocide." -- Publisher's  description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1404023},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726604},
}