'In the interest of maintaining military discipline...'—The massacre of children in Byelaya Tserkov, military chaplains and the Wehrmacht Summary and Analysis

Chapter 7, 'In the interest of maintaining military discipline...'—The massacre of children in Byelaya Tserkov, military chaplains and the Wehrmacht, has a tight focus on events transpiring over about two days in the Ukrainian village of Byelaya Tserkov, during August of 1941. Byelaya Tserkov, or Bialacerkiew, is a Ukrainian village about thirty miles from Kiev. During August of 1941 an extended execution program was carried out on a rifle-range. Initially, adult Jews were executed. Numerous children were then imprisoned in a building on the outskirts of the village, and the following day most of them were executed by shooting. About ninety...