Blood’s ‘Birds of Prey: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers and the Holocaust in Poland’ lies Białowieża Primeval Forest, recognized as UNESCO’s Biosphere Reserve nowadays, and during WWII serving as a centre gear wheel of Göring’s degenerate plan of creating a Germanic hunting reserve, ‘Germania’, by resettlement and extermination of the local dwellers. Blood managed to decipher previously obscure reports and expose patterns of Nazi atrocities. Through a forensic and painstaking process of piecing together scraps of evidence over two decades, and utilizing Geographical Information System software, Philip W. This gap in the historical record had been facilitated by the destruction of the Luftwaffe’s records in 1945.
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. 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. Based entirely on previously unpublished sources, the book is the synthesis of six areas of research: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, the hunt and environmental history, military geography, Colonialism and Nazi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. The narrative stretches from Göring’s palatial lifestyle to the common soldier on the ground killing Jews, partisans, and civilians. Holmes (18 February 2001).īirds of Prey is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Białowieźa Forest, Poland’s national park. ‘This is the smoking gun of all your research.’
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