Patrick Desbois

“The smooth speeches of genocidal leaders most often portray killing as a clean, surgical act, necessary to remove a dangerous part from the human race. The supposed purity of genocidal discourse is nothing more than the uniform cloak of a murderer. It not only authorizes him but also justifies and encourages him. The supposed purity of murderers is part of the pretense of a just genocide. They call themselves pure to justify their duty to exterminate those they deem impure.”
― Patrick Desbois, In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

“the more I realized that believing in the human race is a serious responsibility, and a position that needs to be consciously created and constructed. It is not enough to affirm or declare the truth; one must really commit oneself to the endeavor of developing a deep conscience, because, clearly from my own experience, a conscience is a fragile entity.”
― Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews