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BIRDS OF PREY - PHILIP W BLOOD TASCHENBUCH

'This is the smoking gun of all your research.'Professor Richard E. Holmes (18 February
2001).Birds of Prey is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Bialowieza Forest  Poland's
national park. The narrative stretches from Göring's palatial lifestyle to the common soldier
on the ground killing Jews  partisans  and civilians. Based entirely on previously unpublished
sources  the book is the synthesis of six areas of research: Hitler's Luftwaffe  the hunt and
environmental history  military geography  Colonialism and Nazi Lebensraum  the Holocaust  and
the war in the East. By weaving together a narrative about Hermann Göring  his inner circle 
and ordinary soldiers  the book reveals the Nazi ambition to draw together East Prussia  the
Bialystok region  and Ukraine into a common eastern frontier of the Greater German state 
revealing how the Luftwaffe  the German hunt  and the state forestry were institutional
perpetrators of Lebensraum and genocide. Up until now the Luftwaffe had not been identified in
specific acts of genocide or placed at large scale killings of Jews  civilians  and partisans.
This gap in the historical record had been facilitated by the destruction of the Luftwaffe's
records in 1945. Through a forensic and painstaking process of piecing together scraps of
evidence over two decades  and utilizing Geographical Information System software  Philip W.
Blood managed to decipher previously obscure reports and expose patterns of Nazi atrocities.

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