GR-related book review

[Doug Millison]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2077-2002May23.html

"[...] One killing place, Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, has entered our
lexicon of horrors because of Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem of the same name.
There are, however, hundreds of other massacre sites whose names, like
those of the victims buried there, remain unknown to us. In contrast, what
happened at them is surprisingly well documented because of an order given
in August 1941 by Gestapo chief Hermann Müller: "The Fuhrer is to be kept
informed continually . . . about the work of the Einsatzgruppen." Müller
asked that visual materials of special interest, such as photographs, be
sent via "the speediest possible delivery." Hitler not only wanted the Jews
killed; the epitome of the armchair murderer, he wished to see the killings
from a distance. In less than a year, the Einsatzgruppen dispatched nearly
200 reports describing their work. No other genocidal action has such a
paper trail. [...]