Engineering Mass Murder

Ramsay Seikaly

Los Angeles -- "The Holocaust is so immense that it cannot be grasped in its entirety, therefore it has to be grasped in its specificity."  The opening tag line of a deeply moving documentary that offers a systematically sobering approach to one of the darkest chapters in our history.  Six million documented Jews murdered in the first mechanized industrially engineered mass slaughter, openly sanctioned by a sovereign power as its officially stated policy.  Although many non Jews perished, the Holocaust or Shoa, as referenced among observant Jews, was  a pogrom unlike any other prior.  For in its overtly declared goal it sought the complete eradication of an entire group of people by defining their faith through blood rather than through choice.  In this manner the justification to shoot, gas, starve, beat, dismember European Jewry was enshrined as a duty and destiny to preserve the purity of humanity and the supremacy of the Aryan master race.  

As nutty as this is, it was just over 70 years ago that this notion of defining a group of people not by their collective belief but by their blood gave rise to the death mills that stretched from central Europe eastward.  Inside The Nazi  War Machine is a 3 part documentary that attempts to examine this chapter of human history were the boundaries of civil conduct seems to have been jettisoned and what we are left with is a scifi fantasy that to our horror was  and is true.  It really happened and many of the perpetrators of this unimaginable crime died either without being brought to justice or received long term sentences that would later be commuted to time served.  A few did, however, meet the gallows...a few, a very few to account for the millions that perished directly and indirectly by the banality of this evil system they tirelessly labored under and the oath of allegiance by which they enthusiastically swore to mete out a grizzly fate to their unsuspecting victims.


What makes this rendition of this now often told story so engaging is that it examines the magnitude and consequences from the factual rather than the emotional side.  Please don't get me wrong there is plenty of emotion.  To sit an watch the premeditated murder of millions of Europeans of the Jewish faith is heart wrenching.   No other people have been subjected to  a sustained level of anger, hatred and violence based not on what they believe but who they are.


What INSIDE THE HOLOCAUST does is frame the parameters of this campaign of annihilation perpetrated against the Jews through the facts, figures and the eyes of the the perpetrators of this crime against humanity and human decency.  


Therefore,we include herein below the entire video along with a transcript for your review.  Viewer discretion is strongly advised.


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right
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when
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the Holocaust is so immense that it can't be grasped in its entirety
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the
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therefore to speak rest in its place the city more
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image by image the more facts of life
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the moment by moment the story by story of Colossians 3:2
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I was aware that after I passed the needs
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the only way would be to the gusher miss are and would becomes interesting is to
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see the specific
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within its larger context if you see to this house the people in freight cars
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and that means to me 25 freight cars if you go behind each photograph
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in the frame with the photographs you can actually see the window at the frame
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and bodies being burnt this you go behind each document
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there was not one sec store in Germany which could say
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event and most it was each and every aspect of society
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you get a much larger storage the nazis
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introduced a resolution to this world introduced a new concept
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an impossibility they introduce the possibility
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wiping on other people of the face of the earth
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to make the Holocaust relevant from 21st century
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it would be my deepest dreams at the holocaust worker relevant
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him
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well when
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wat
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I think that difficult thing for
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people to grapple with emotionally
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about the Holocaust is how
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could be a group of people these so hated
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and scene is so dangerous for who they were
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that one had to come to the conclusion that they had to be eliminated from the
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face of the earth
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the need to understand the Holocaust you have to understand six words
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the new definition the
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expropriation the concentration
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the
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find such group
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deportation who
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death camps who
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would
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the definition the
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normally would define choose on the basis of the attorney they hold
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the traditions they practiced believes that they embody in their lives
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the germans to find the Jews biologically based on religion or other
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words
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when the regime came to power and Turner 33
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part of the Nazi movement
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the new the aggressive radical Park
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most extreme Park wanted to just expunged jus overnight nah
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cool and yeah
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have my what they did was they began to legislate against Jews
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the new
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and rapidly the Jews were who kicked out love not only the civil service part of
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gary is a society
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we were many Jews education universities teachers
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lawyers doctors the Jews became
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something that was not needed
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the climax of this early period of legislation was the norm for Los
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the laws were there to determine officially as the title says
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citizenship in Germany who is a citizen and who is not
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for the only definitions that were given up who is a citizen
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their definitions for who was not a citizen you know the only people define
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does not citizens and Germany
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where Jews the D user for stand the name
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Israel there's a middle name for a man and Sarah as a middle name for a woman
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from the middle of 1938 the No
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in other times in history
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jews could convert they could hide themselves by assimilating within
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the host country but under and
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racial theory during the nazi period Jews were Jews because of the blood that
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was coursing through their veins
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it didn't matter what was in their hearts were in their mind
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it mattered what was in their blood so the ultimate extension up this theory
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was that if you wanted to
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re jus you couldn't do it through conversion yes they did during
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think position you couldn't do it in any other way
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then to murder them on
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who's this try getting paper trail that goes right down to
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books for children in schools and popular films and all in all sorts of
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things in the Nazis did
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the didn't always relate directly to the Jews were might relate directly to the
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Jews
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but we're part of a comprehensive view of the world
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in which the Jews not only had no place but the Jews
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were almost the anti few min anti-german
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anti REM in this world playing a negative role
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and therefore they have a place have a place until
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ultimately not gonna be there anymore the
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my
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the expropriation
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the confiscation of jewish wealthy
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the removal of jewish probably the registration of all assets the inability
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of
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jus to own homes property
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of the best to the Jews were
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percent of people moved into their homes took over the business is
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that's on some level the local populations
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understood these people were not coming back they didn't ask why they're not
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coming back
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but they sure as hell no that they were
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not coming back themed
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the new you
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10 the drawer faxes is most striking for me personally
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in our historical museum it's a game called my house
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jus out to gain was created in Germany in 1936 the same year the monopoly was
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created in the United States
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as credit just like Monopoly the family game
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he says on it
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on the box it a game for people aged 1899 so multi-generational families can
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sit down together at the coffee table
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put the game down there and play its
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a game where you have a piece you roll the dice you move around the board we
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collect things in the one who collects the most during the game
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when's the game what are you collecting you're collecting how many Jews have
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affected
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from your country
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the
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when
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the
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the
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I came across one document it was just a letter of the
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and non-jewish woman of pricing to her mother-in-law
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about in the high school star nothin when the book room
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the No
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at the beginning of the letters you get the impression that she isn't it she was
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engines because she says that
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what happened to them and that's the not seem up
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came in and undergraduates apartments and so on
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but didn't the tone she just somehow
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and she describes that from what that was thrown
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from the jewish apartments onto the street she is realized how much to
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choose
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processed and that they processed sings the the non-jews
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didn't have flood didn't have enough of good
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the ring and then she is now on the do this
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have to be in this place and we also don't know where they go now
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but probably the they would be brought to a concentration camp
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until it descended solution will be followed through on
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you work not fallen that's really to blame
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but I think 135 I've been going into this YouTube even get a deep
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you wouldn't Begum either of use that one time in Cancun
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applied you here this 00 5f in Ghana
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you're not a publisher given the believer by the time the war began
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in Sept 39 they were not that many Jews left in Germany
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and the desire to read your above is jus
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really that opportunity only came
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with conquest of territories where the Jews lived and that began in Poland in
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September 1939
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your it's not simply not only
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lives that were lost it wasn't our communities
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was a way of life in some cases your
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the whole course was on imaginable and it involved using
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all the knowledge in the inside twentieth century humanity had in order
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to
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define expropriate concentrate
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and ultimately myer and annihilated
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and destroying also take possession hold their wealth from their homes an entire
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population
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on and even as grade
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and as well connected a man as
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allen dulles who was then with the OS s need a beach im headin for CIDA
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Alan dollars when he was informed of the death camps
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had a very interesting response he said are so it's true
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he had all the details you know every piece serve
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information floating through American government intelligence but he couldn't
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imagine
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on that that was what was not done
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I'll
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here
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man
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the
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the and
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we have liberation photographs we have uniforms we have all sorts of things in
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our collection
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I'm I think the bullets are the only things that we have in our collection
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that I know of that that did that I'm
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we have we have the actual thing that killed someone
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15,000 someone's you can
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read about the Holocaust you can study and you can read the documents
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but when you look at this object the actual bullet
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that murdered in individual him
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everything else seems to disappear in a way because that was the pic
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agent that was the absolute cause of the death of an individual
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in that sense I'm it isn't irreplaceable experience
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and to look at that bulletin to contemplate but it didn't mom
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the things that's group in I'm
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global killing units I'm
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in
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this is min who slaughter rule
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want to know if entire villages
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stones communities person by person
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town by town believable I'll
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day by day the my
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no concealment blatant and brutal
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and no effort to disguise what they were doing what their intentions
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what
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in June 1941 the germans invaded the Soviet Union
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unified and by
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the end of the summer of 1941 there was a wholesale
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large-scale murder
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by individual shooting
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love the huge number of people the
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the
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the man
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the new
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the Einsatzgruppen were essentially mobile offices
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love the Rai security main office
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and at the beginning of the summer of 1941
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began to shoot the man in the villages
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on and cities the operations
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continued throughout the summer of 1941 and some time
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toward the end the summer and the nature the victim changed
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not only were men being killed but also their
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wives and mothers and sisters and their children
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and by the end of the summer of 1941 there was a wholesale
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large-scale murder by individual
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shooting love a huge number of people on
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the germans engaged in killing methods
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that were suitable to the geographical
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transportation
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and public relations context
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up the area in which they were operating
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when it was more efficient to
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shoe juice where they were he and other victims
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the German shocked them where they were of
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the
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the wanted to pictures taken
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that was still to be announced a scoop in killing shows
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a soldier pointing a gun at a woman
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who has a child their arms are
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on the back of the photograph is captioned in German
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by Vanguard ukraine 1942
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jewish action this picture was actually found
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intercepted in fact morsels main post office
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when
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commonly resistance workers open letters
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belonging to German soldiers who are writing letters and sending them from
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the Eastern Front
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to their families back home in Germany the
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the that
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theme
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there
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on
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the
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there
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there
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the
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that the fact this photographer the who knew what was happening to these people
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knew what was going to happen to them
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the calmly recorded their last moments
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is good
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one of the most chilling good
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I don't even know what the word is good heap
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possess the knowledge love their immediate future their death
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of and
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had the calm to focuses camera
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to make sure that he set the f-stop properly and
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clicked the shutter this is them
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says something about I believe the nature of these operations
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of
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when we thought of how to portray the mobile killing units
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and the dead at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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we came up with the
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very contrarian view
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what to show a
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a
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a
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if we chillin dead bodies piled high
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and the mass graves one would've understood something horrific it happen
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but one would've never understood the nature of the crime
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so we did instead was to create our own
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faces the
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we didn't wanna show you the dead %uh
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we want to show you a sense lead the living
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and let you imagine
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what was and is no longer
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a the Jews have one town the Thomas
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she shook unless when you're %uh who killed on the third day of the Jewish
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New Year they had been gathered in the synagogue
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for russian of a Jewish New Year
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and they were kept in the synagogue and then they were marched out of the
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synagogue to the killing field the rabbi
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and the elders in the community leading the way in then there was killed one by
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one by one
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and Senate showing you did we show you living
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the
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a family picnic
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a
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little child on a chair naval uniform
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a to another embracing our child
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bomb
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love this life
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you're at a kid one day
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luls who
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me the mall
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the
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concentration the MacBook first
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let's think of concentration others concentration camps let's think about
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this reservations that were created to contain the Jews
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to contain the Jews until world
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though all the victims holds only suffered
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the same fate in the death camps they arrive there differently and they
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arrived there in different conditions
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the mall in poland
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the process %uh get it was a shin lasted from nineteen thirty-nine early 1942
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1942
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and 43 so by the time jews arrived there
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they were already in May she added and without any material resources
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and the new so here you had in Warsaw for example
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a get old that was located on 2.4 percent
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love land to the city of Warsaw but contain one third of its population
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and that's world to at times almost as high as 500,000 people in it became
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something the
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the German soldiers were attracted to seeing
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war
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the Nazi film crews frequented the will also get to
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taking pictures for that own propaganda purposes the new they work crews who
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came
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and filmed both the poverty on the better off in the ghetto in
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so they were known to pick people off the streets to let well testing take
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them into restaurants
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restaurants that showed lots of food in abundance and drinks and so on
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a new made to fit in sound animated
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looked happy im pleased in eat and drink and so I'll
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they also showed the very poor get to choose
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in accommodations where they were living with it said
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extreme poverty they serve food people
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dead in the gutter sometimes too naked
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and so I'll
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there are those who believed the Holocaust was born whole online if
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that's cool
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I see an awful lot of improvisation I still of a lot of experimentation
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the
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the nice sealed off a lot of starts and stops
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love failures and then love innovation
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the mood for example
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concentration camps were developed for early the new they served multiple
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functions one of them was penal colonies places to rest massive numbers
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the other functional the concentration camps was too
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essentially provide slave labor and forced labor for German
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a industry
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the moon
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400
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loan
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the moral
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theme
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and the
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prisoners for some home ox to what the nazis sets
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as the incarceration resume these reasons are always
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reasons which for some HOE invented so what you see there it sits atop from the
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concentration camp of the whole
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you have something like here political prison I have like a triangle in rent
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because their enemies there France like
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Social Democrats communists a center of like if someone goes
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in present as a political person like a social democrat and he was to use as
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well
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he got this sign and it's very somehow cynical that these signs
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for jews school the combined of Yellow Label
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yellow triangle and another cult triangle
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together they performed to a Star of David
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them
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on
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from
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the
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the men up
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boo
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through the whole complete
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album of 92 photos which CSS
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took for the reason of wanting to show more
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how fantastic the system of a concentration camp can function
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and kind of awkward albee's on document because it documents
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not the reality of arms click on the way and the SS wanted to we present haha
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concentration camp
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wayne's
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one thing that I found and still find really surprising is
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in the function of SS guards how they changed and
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became the first day they used to say
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yeah hello to everybody and how are you and they had this civilized
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moments of moving around when and then after 3-4 days
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they learn to the civilized in a certain way to change the whole
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way of moving around and then they use started to hum
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acts like SS Const
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you put them into a certain surrounding and then
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step-by-step you can change a human being we can change civilized place of
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moving a bald
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into a terrible system of torture and
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and finally even atrocity me
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would 0
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good
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while the reasons I've always dismissed the defense so
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we were just following orders is because they don't think it gives
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the awareness up the creativity involved
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in doing something that was on president said and until that moment never before
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achieved
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good
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good
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would 0
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the nazis develop their own lexicon
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for many things instead of murder you have worries like
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0 special treatment or special handling
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I think a special treat a special handling I think apostol packaged
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and they're thinking of taking the thousand Jews and take them out shooting
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them
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resettlement
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relocation beyond the river me on the mountains
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also to the terms like that looking behind those terms
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was genocide the Jewish people
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mime
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mom
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in burdens
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this is a letter that was thrown from a train at the end of August 1942 by
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doctor arsons
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this portion says my dears we are on our way to poland nothing has helped
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there fifty a bus in one car I'm
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stay strong and be brave and courageous and I will be
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also I was stripped and everything
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kisses auto %uh
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that's the last record that we have I dove simmons
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the letter doesn't get todos wife without the help of an anonymous French
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railway worker
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I'm who writes here dear madam I found the slaughter after one and the
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the trains with Jews on a passed by and I hope they
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that this pleases you and it signed a railway worker
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by in in this case you thinking about it it's 1942 its relatively early
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in the war it's relatively early in the Holocaust in in Western Europe
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I'm but this railway worker Rd knows that it was a trainer jus that passed by
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the man January 20th 1942
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eighty percent to the Jews who were to die in the Holocaust was still life
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16 months later
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for the five for the Jews were done in the Holocaust were already dead
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what happened the Vons a conference essentially
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was the NCAA Shin above the policy the final solution to the Jewish problem
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meeting the murderer of all jews
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No
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DSS bought this house in 1940 as a guest house
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and as a conference almost they own you that there was already a mass murderer
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going on in eastern europe
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I'm the new reality teen sex appeal discussed
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hits at once a conference it to listen information on the general
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line that's a decision had been made to kill all European Jews
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my it is also is a moment
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did the whole German society became involved my
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where you can see the Vons a conference and of course the place where to place
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becomes a symbol icon for the
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premeditated planned
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murder above European Jewry and something many ways the
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conferences this symbol love how
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desk murderers operated those who had no connection with
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people and blood carried out their work
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well and what you have here
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its the whole organization also whole cost starts
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desis the guidelines for deportations from on so we need to the east
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how to deport the juice
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what to do before what to do with them during the right on the train etcetera
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the whole involvement of administration of banks
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costs transportation so
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there was not one sec store in Germany which could say
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on all event and most interpretation on the holocaust
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but he left his seat it was each and every aspect of society
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I was almost moved in the Holocaust and
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robbery of the most important deportation
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the
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the train to become
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the symbol the Holocaust almost as dramatically as the death camps
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the new roads
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represent what is an ovum the new way you hold
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chilling the Nazis and the new in retrospect the generals were holding pen
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the reservation containing the Jews until the infrastructure for their
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destruction was created
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well trains became the indispensable
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link that taking the ghetto was choose who'd been concentrated who had been
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deported to so they were forced together and then
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what happens to them you trains
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deportation annihilation
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them
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it's no accident that auschwitz was located where it was it was on a major
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rail artery between krakow in Vienna
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and without that infrastructure they would never if selected auschwitz
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as the site for a major facility say most roofer treblinka
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and sobibor and bells H the net was not
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a particular assignment love a particular
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typeof locomotive they were using mostly freight engines the trend has a top
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speed of
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80 kilometers the now when a train came in with 50 or 60 cars
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very soon they had method of splitting
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the train into portions of ten to fifteen cars
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so that not so many people would get outta the cars when they were driven
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into the camp I'm up to 8,000 to 10,000 people
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were transported in one day so
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the average speed is like 20 25 kilometers per hour
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the on
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would be fake us were taken because it to block them from the outside
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you cede forty in afraid car now if you
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seed a thousand people that means you need to $22.25
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freight cars was in poland the figure was different from
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the police of the railways to provide them with
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the train for five thousand people and the maximum number of cars you may have
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due to regulations within the train is 60 cars
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120 axles so that's fifty
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to 60 cars and that means roughly 100 to 110
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people in one car good would blow
36:40
deputation trains normally over western Europe and over Germany
36:44
word the regularly accompanied by
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needed tudjman of 12 to 15
36:50
policemen and one office that would be now said today even for the SAS was a
36:57
half day at the time
36:59
and they arranged for the railways to keep the Jews into the train until
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Monday morning
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when they had a full day of operation and
37:09
weekend was not spoiled by the arrival
37:12
of the temptation train
37:16
I'm
37:21
and her
37:33
I'm one of the true horrors of the Holocaust is the mental health
37:39
energy the managerial skills
37:42
the the fingertip feeling in deploying and utilizing scarce resources
37:49
to the best possible of fact
37:52
that was supplied to
37:55
this project to eliminate the Jews of Europe
37:58
and if you step back from the
38:03
ultimate goal the talents
38:07
the energy the imagination
38:10
that the perpetrators of the Holocaust applied
38:14
to completing their project are generally two types of characteristics
38:20
that we in the middle class admire in terms of getting the job start
38:28
marked when once said there are
38:31
truth lies and statistics way but I think that when was wrong because
38:37
statistics reveal
38:39
essential truths about the Holocaust and sometimes the very starkness
38:44
oldest sis 6 reveal the largest of all stories
38:50
0
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new one no longer injury 137,000 402 jus
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147 trains 54 days between 15th
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me the 8th July one understand the
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deportation from Warsaw Ghetto the 23rd July
39:17
I'll 21st Nov September the gin 61 days
39:24
265,000 shoes
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ship to treblinka the one
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understand bill should jus killed the staff were 104 fourteen of them German
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to known survivors the statistics tell
39:42
a brutal painful specific
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10 on affordable truce some there
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I'm
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the road
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the
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death camps your
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one
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Ste I was involved in the construction love them or little shits
40:27
and portable we discovered underneath
40:31
the in the mass graves bolger's we discovered something
40:34
a key sirs keys
40:37
no we don't ordinarily think the key is a powerful artifact let me tell you a
40:43
little bit about what you represent
40:47
the victim left home one morning I'll
40:50
and fully expected sunday to return to that moment at home would still be there
40:55
he would still be alive
40:57
and it would still be safe
41:00
load
41:05
when you die with your keys lock
41:10
then when you burned with your keys you understand that he never imagined her
41:15
she never merchant
41:17
with fate was awaiting them
41:39
got
41:41
the nazi system of concentration camps
41:45
is often misunderstood many people conflate the notion of death camp in
41:50
concentration camp
41:51
and they believe that having been
41:54
sent to concentration camp was essentially death sentence that's not
41:57
true
41:58
I'll there were many survivors a concentration camps
42:01
home and there were very few survivors
42:05
of death camps Blair
42:11
so boy is located in the very remote Porto's
42:14
poland I'll
42:18
but it was a sight so yuri and so spooky
42:21
that essentially even wall the Holocaust was taking place
42:26
the germans decided that this place could never be seen
42:30
could never be known so the erotic etudiant our camp they buried
42:36
the entire camp where a
42:44
the wall with
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well
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the
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one did to book
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3 you for
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5 6
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a men's sevens yes seven still okay
43:11
this have discovered here the polls holes three lines of both holes
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on this line you can see here and to just three stuff
43:19
and on the on the one side will have for
43:23
no fines on the other side's and also a lot of fines
43:27
we can find this pieces of human
43:32
feat of human bones here on this aria so it is so
43:37
very important I think ur for us
43:40
because the we know that's a it was it was happen to you
43:45
wall
43:50
the stars French for us
43:54
to come here today on this commission time length
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not to heal voices on the bed and numbered so it's difficult but under
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some because in a a real fulwood online so long you can hear all about
44:08
a lot of the best and now and the
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area all the time no bets why the
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the
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the
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the
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the
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something more was BR only for the short moment
44:34
cool mind extermination of thousands of the jewish people
44:37
that salt was the topic of the deaf that's all
44:40
they're very complicated you know that said because we have
44:44
a lot of knowledge about a number taps the some people is that definitely
44:49
different situation nothing
44:51
then the it step by step I think we are coming
44:55
to a true love the history of this camp very important was that out haha logical
45:00
excavations of theme
45:10
the message was left mazing moment for us when we see me
45:15
in the saint that shower head and a
45:20
this this end of the shower must be should be
45:24
and is for me the symbol of death
45:27
they of the holocaust really about the Holocaust my
45:37
0
45:44
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45:48
now
45:49
a lot of people say the whole let us know how clinton's nose and if you were
45:52
killed
45:53
something's it done
46:04
the my
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the
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on
46:12
theme
46:14
my so I'll tell you due process
46:17
it's a must push in the people that told to go down
46:21
leave the large the site the my
46:29
the promise them that the violence lies with the lost
46:32
I'll
46:36
the
46:39
guide your mom that they need to be a doctor
46:44
he had alleged a firm sometime how the light when your home
46:48
he had a short speech he
46:52
kindly apologized the name
46:57
because asunder means Yahoo
47:00
need to have a shower and the
47:06
on
47:07
please on this yourself for the clothing nice little ways I could find it later
47:12
invoke reddish Ali
47:15
the shop planes
47:19
MTV now are sometimes the club level that the German stuff so nicely
47:23
then straight to the the eyelid to the National he called
47:28
massage last love to have them
47:33
ruled
47:35
a
47:46
team
47:47
the moment maybe a minute or two after the
47:51
the just after the engine started
47:55
ahead of us love screamed
48:00
but later subsided the moon
48:07
where /url to come out
48:12
16 Min is to hear the steam us a scheme
48:15
later mass lights a me who
48:19
thanks to a little niece little less clients
48:28
of
49:01
theme in February 1940 the nazis started to publish in the general government
49:11
thing crackles
49:12
I am this magazine Polish language full-color magazine
49:17
called illustrate funny Korea Polski which is the illustrated polish Korea
49:22
in issue number two you can see this front page cover
49:26
in color the group for women smiling
49:29
looking up from a train carriage and the text reads
49:32
we going to Germany the men here you can see
49:37
and supposedly happy lines workers working in Germany on the land
49:42
a queue of people going to work theme in reality of course at the time the tens
49:49
of thousands of Poles being deported
49:53
to Germany for slave labor where
49:58
issue think about the Holocaust its
50:02
a social the name of the Lord of the European Jews
50:05
after Nazi persecution also in close like chips sees
50:09
and I'll political prisoners and two
50:13
I'll forced labour also has a whole world of
50:16
and of all persecution and weirdo
50:20
the
50:25
notion Nov forced labor and the holocaust
50:30
touches in some ways they interact in some ways
50:34
but they're different their separate and other ways
50:44
the Holocaust is the state-sponsored
50:47
persecution and annihilation
50:50
are European Jews the definition does not
50:54
include non Jewish victims
50:58
that being said by 1945 there were no fewer than
51:03
any medium foreign laborers
51:06
most of them forced laborers working
51:09
inside the borders of germany than we are he and the band was Association
51:20
in 10 hunk us from about 12 period
51:24
the way say is a and a dream outcome but
51:28
it's an old a dream now which stands for addressing machine
51:32
the minutes from
51:36
a factory that was situated here in
51:39
any attempt to hold are for
51:43
years and years after the war we found this guy that a straw was
51:47
and their way file Kaizen them metal
51:50
native I mean you know that's why is a %uh was still there
51:54
in the year two thousand and they could still be Rand twelve thousand carts was
51:58
twelve thousand names on it
52:02
12,000 calls all in all and 4,700 slings White House
52:09
on each card
52:10
and always said the name of the workout and where it came from
52:14
he or she
52:19
I have here several name tags in my hand
52:22
she always see and as find one person on each card
52:26
here for example we have I see a coalition
52:30
she's from poland and I see it by the dates that she has been born in 1928
52:36
and she came to Lawrence factory in 45 so she was
52:40
seventeen-years-old I'll
52:48
the germans
52:49
exploited the populations they came under their their control
52:52
and depending on who you were you had a different fate
52:56
but one of the main means exploitation
53:00
was was labouring
53:02
when dormido about was the concentration camp that was
53:06
associated with underground facility that manufactured the
53:10
v1 and v2 rockets the nose who were involved in the
53:14
creation the camp itself 0
53:18
labored under very very difficult conditions %uh
53:21
for air circulation
53:23
lots of dust and many of them perished as a result of the work
53:26
this was built by
53:30
a slave for us as they come from za concentration camp whose invite
53:34
the
53:41
is a scary as a small we are you on on the mountain
53:44
frances was absolutely saved against her mom solves a merengue and salsa British
53:48
band
53:49
the entrances of the main thomason's another on system
53:53
was blown off by as a soviet sands the year 1948
53:57
today you can see only if
54:02
3 of 4 percent of the whole another on factories
54:05
while the
54:10
the nso thirty-five to forty percent of this lead vocals
54:14
as it works your dies inside of the total system to never see
54:17
light I'll the some people the few on the phone
54:21
3-4 days the needs a common sight of some small town
54:25
really fear and said I'd here they build city goes the stones only by Hans
54:30
way
54:31
to sleep owns a cold stones that really closest
54:37
and there was no possibility as it's the people can wash
54:41
there was not hospital service
54:44
like this there was nothing I'll and say work here on the untied
54:49
your I cannot see the mansion I'll
54:52
this was possible to exist here for some weeks for some months
54:56
up
55:01
another steel construction you can feel the water we have here a certain feet
55:06
deep
55:06
wat r on R Us than a single another war though
55:09
we have a lot of stress is a lot of parts of the Rockets that produced the
55:13
%uh the past
55:19
when I have seen his rooms is on i'm rhonda como sin of me that's not so
55:23
only a a factory or technical base from the south writes this is a place
55:29
love this available with teams from Susa
55:32
rise
55:34
night your Nugroho
55:38
home
55:51
the Holocaust is the ongoing
55:54
unrelenting pursuit both killing
55:58
which gradually moved to greater and greater stages
56:02
perfection house which was three camps in one
56:07
the penal colony the slave labor temper
56:13
and a diff Jim the penal colony was honest it's one use primarily to house
56:18
polish prisoners
56:19
on your
56:25
Buddha monoliths and 40s up camps were slave labor camps
56:29
com
56:33
the third the chance was couch that's too war birkenau
56:36
which was a death camp this
56:41
so the idea was that you had a very
56:44
intricate relationship between slave labor
56:48
and killing centers cool
56:51
cool
56:52
there the slave labor drained all mental strength from you
56:58
and then they turn you over the killing sent to where you dies
57:01
this is one of the original
57:05
look greenspan related to the construction of of a result of its peak
57:09
in our camp complex
57:10
in October 1941 when the germans decided date they are going to develop peaceful
57:15
area to construct go to know here and decreased construct
57:18
RG far been here day enlarged to the special construction
57:23
director at and rename it to buy lighting housemates
57:27
allocated to it several SS officers with some sort of architectural training for
57:32
engineers
57:33
training the new dole's
57:37
officers walked alongside some inmates
57:40
who possessed a technical knowledge those were only
57:44
polish inmates not jewish inmates at the end of the day doors or approve the maps
57:49
and put the
57:50
final signatures war members of the SS
57:54
construction Directorate theme usually if you go through a German the original
57:58
and Nazia documents you encounter at mean
58:01
the signature it's a big shot it's someone being in the hierarchy
58:05
him there approved Dez specific nutrient
58:09
on October 23rd 9041
58:13
when he
58:16
I'll tho the role of those who is not on those emotions could boast
58:25
that auschwitz was the apex of the killing process
58:28
reason he could do that is essentially because
58:32
the knowledge that's the chilled quickly and they killed cleanly and
58:36
I should also ironically was the place
58:39
in which the very infrastructure love for to play its role
58:43
and do forty four parallel railroad tracks in Ashfield
58:48
New York's Penn Station has 21 and we all know how many people can arrive at
58:53
Penn Station on a busy holiday weekend
58:55
largest number of trucks in the United States was 49th parallel tracks at
59:02
the Chicago stockades no shit said forty-four which meant that it could
59:09
handle
59:10
the people arriving from every corner of Europe in being shipped outfits
59:15
now switch you can still see it how
59:19
how close the into leaking of trains and gas chambers where
59:23
they were only 50 meters apart from each other
59:26
I'll now in auschwitz
59:30
there was no such thing as a ramp in the beginning
59:33
there was only a
59:39
cheap movie platform by the freight station of auschwitz
59:44
and from that platform they would walk over land for a mile or two
59:48
to the extermination camp in the open in
59:52
the SS felt and the commandant of Auschwitz failed
60:00
this was not a professional away any longer and had this
60:03
siding into the camp be built that not all dominates memory and history
60:09
the ramp us with that we know about with the
60:12
gate over the track was only early in 1944
60:16
long
60:18
%uh the entire operation about shirts up
60:21
serve has become the the symbol
60:25
love the whole cost for many one reason is that
60:28
because of the nature the camp there were many survivors and their stories
60:33
have been told um especially in the West up
60:44
if you go to the former Soviet Union and you talk about the Holocaust our shirts
60:49
won't be mentioned their Holocaust was the
60:52
the individual shooting up jus near their homes
60:56
this is more about memory and how memories constructed
61:04
the marshy were people died at auschwitz then died being shot
61:08
why the Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators on
61:15
on
61:16
the
61:18
on
61:24
on
61:27
on
61:31
you
61:33
the
61:35
well
61:40
well
61:41
good are
61:45
and
61:48
games the lily York about two more sometimes called the house example
61:53
is the only documentation that exists of the transports arriving at birkenau
61:59
at the ramp and and that the people who were brought to the ramp
62:02
waiting to go to the gas chambers have enough the things that we think
62:09
might have been the reason that it was takin is that a new commandant came down
62:14
shirts
62:15
Richard Baer hand so presumably
62:18
this album very well could have been taken as a sort of presentation album
62:22
for him
62:23
love this is how things works here this is what we do here
62:28
I'm this is an example UHV
62:31
how we do our jobs and how we do them well and cleanly
62:34
look at the structure of how this works the new the album consists of more than
62:42
200 photographs
62:44
that says who people waiting sitting on the ground waiting to be
62:49
taken to the gas chambers way
62:52
honor of
62:58
that shows
63:03
men and women being sorted at the ramp
63:06
of
63:13
cells to power belongings there obviously taken by an official
63:18
photographer I'll because the
63:22
the different angle some other photographs taken maybe from the top of
63:25
the chain
63:25
if they look down on the crowd says thank katherine
63:29
at the round
63:34
the more
63:38
the photographs are pressed cleanly there's lovely and
63:41
calligraphy describing all of the photographs
63:45
arrival and selection this is not a haphazard saying that was put together
63:50
this was something that someone clearly took pride in
63:52
putting together
64:04
the my the law as late as
64:10
October 1943 said to have done
64:13
what we have done to have accomplished what we have accomplished in aside from
64:20
very few to have done so
64:21
inhumane and moral way this is chapter German history
64:25
never to be written never to be told I have test question it's never too dear
64:31
it never to be told
64:32
why do I know about it course in the back of the room even as himmler said
64:37
never to be written never to be told
64:40
those large tape recorder above the very old sort that to go
64:44
lots of space recording what himmler had said
64:49
why because he was proud of what he was doing
64:53
anyone to documented for history
65:01
would
65:05
hmm
65:09
mom
65:11
the me
65:21
%uh the first large gas chambers in auschwitz
65:25
could not start working because the material
65:28
to boot that corpses was not allowed to be
65:32
put on training because it was civil business
65:35
been in early 1943 would be so these booming begins dudes
65:43
in the back of baffled in me to Germany ended waited for
65:47
eight weeks to be shipped to auschwitz that was because
65:50
the railways was short of space and building a chroot aureum
65:55
was not considered to be more effective did
65:59
we r
66:06
at former administration building of two toughens ons company in this war song
66:12
planning office and slow this
66:15
place of remembrance on all together
66:18
tops & Sons delivered to the bomb 25 Owens
66:22
Rhys I seventy 6 incineration shambles
66:26
I'm
66:33
the No
66:34
the ingenious construct its owns and techniques for demoss mother
66:39
the S&S and saw the boat yet I'm
66:48
now she's spoken on that were built for comfort Therese
66:52
and territory to dance three more to customers
66:56
in the basement and to change
66:59
the poison air is fresh air they needed to 20 nations system
67:03
and this is a systems was also delivered by toughens ons
67:07
on
67:10
on for its some known
67:14
the teapot man show designed a four-story
67:18
over me that course should be in the joost
67:21
that's his first floor and they should slides down walls
67:25
the new and after preheating perience
67:29
of two days the group in to choose should catch fire from the who's doing
67:34
the Lausanne
67:35
the
67:41
0
67:44
of
67:47
we %ah at though form our Planning Office
67:51
on this aside quite profound hat
67:54
his working place on
68:01
could pull this tooth on the Troy machine like this
68:04
and on a clear day you ran you look tall side window he could see it
68:08
smoke from the chimneys of to come join in
68:11
Mont the No
68:16
the
68:17
the movie
68:23
the men cuckoo for
68:26
constructed to open for DSS he
68:30
I wanted to do stop his income and he wanted to be recognized as a
68:35
good engine year and he'll want to
68:38
deliver a product based on the needs of the S&S
68:42
and he knew about circumstances
68:45
in in the camps the
68:50
or a
68:53
discipline beat the gas
68:55
need to temperature
68:57
of 2063 to develop it's fatal effect
69:01
and could prove a nudist so his chest
69:05
the assassin also spoken out to preheat the guests am a specific wasted heat
69:10
from the overtones
69:11
you
69:14
worked alt this construction in his free time at home
69:18
of
69:29
the they made to 1944
69:37
the numbers of people being casting burnt birkenau
69:40
reached a climax there was more than I think a hundred and thirty-two thousand
69:45
bodies per month
69:46
in order to cope with this highest when linked
69:50
it within the autumn about your 1944
69:54
that's it is some to commander took photographs of the pie as the bodies
70:00
being burned they did this
70:03
obviously clandestinely they did it to the window the barracks close to the
70:08
pyre
70:08
been lit the
70:11
the
70:13
the
70:14
the new
70:21
but it wasn't until later in 10 infecting
70:24
until the nineteen eighties the it was realized
70:27
the actual full fame with the photograph in the thing with the photographs you
70:32
can actually seem to
70:33
the window to frame and bodies being burnt
70:37
the I think there's a misunderstanding that auschwitz that
70:48
the SS who worked there all they did was
70:52
supervise prisoners and take people to the gas chambers and that's just
70:56
not true I'm they put in their time
70:59
they did their work and then when work was over and there were book fairs there
71:04
were SS games
71:05
and we have records that you know make sure that you keep your dogs on a leash
71:10
and make sure that that the female the female guards should not visit you in
71:16
your quarters unsupervised
71:18
and 0
71:23
lose an album created by call hookah
71:26
that was discovered only a few years ago low
71:31
my
71:34
the thing about the album is the doesn't surprise me that much people were quite
71:38
shocked by the kind of images in a hooker outbid
71:43
those pictures so think young women
71:46
the workers that house is having a good time with the SS office is
71:49
one image shows
71:52
a group have a so that notorious
71:56
SS man
71:57
in involved in the kind of thing so long been accompanied by
72:00
accordionist of
72:02
there assembled like mailed Voice Choir 0
72:08
0 then this album is one of the
72:13
only pictures actually of mingle a the doctor that deaths
72:17
me pictured at the house fans
72:22
but we have these records we know that these people
72:26
are perpetrating massive crimes on a massive scale
72:30
it would be much more comforting and comfortable
72:33
to see them in the act
72:37
you know perpetrating the crime but
72:40
the album doesn't give us that white be surprised
72:46
unless you think that the Nazis with monsters with holes
72:50
they had weekends away the know they have found the new
72:56
people having a good time people with their pets
73:00
the drinks parties and sell
73:09
the
73:14
I've been studying the holocaust for over 40 years by and at first I was most
73:20
interested
73:21
in the victims in
73:24
I want to narrate their story to tell what happened to them
73:27
the overtime understood that you couldn't tell the victim's story without
73:32
also telling the story with killers of
73:36
and I became fascinated not by the in new manatee
73:40
both the children's book by the humanity of the killers the if all the killers
73:46
were
73:46
sadists and demonic leave evil
73:49
then the world would be
73:52
a more protected from the implications the Holocaust because it wouldn't say
73:57
that ordinary men and given extraordinary circumstances could become
74:02
systematic killers
74:03
0 to understand that they had in the house for itself
74:08
0 which was a killing systematic killing self
74:12
and then the self that could flirt with young women that could
74:16
should news with their colleagues that could enjoy themselves and relax
74:23
that prison see human challenge to us because it means that ordinary men and
74:27
women
74:28
I'll have the capacity to do
74:31
the most extraordinary things awful things evil things
74:35
horrific things you
74:38
no
74:41
on
74:44
when
74:50
when
74:59
the
75:06
the
75:12
many germans who happen
75:15
0 access to the knowledge
75:19
about the concentration camps were shocked
75:23
by the is a calm enormity
75:26
and harm the
75:29
the new
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the
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and we're not looking only at site but smell
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the men here in this well
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what was done in their names
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to represent them 0
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and if you were to connect this today
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20 generation of germans who are the grandchildren
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or even great-grandchildren up this generation
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there's still the issue that this was done
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in the meeting with German missus
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the earned berths has to be you this
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is a part of my history I'm opposed to it
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but I must deal with on
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it's not just the history of their country is this your family
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and so they can find very complicated
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emotional issues they
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understand the history and a feel
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in many cases special responsibility
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is to guard against anything that could emerge that would echo
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that history
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in
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the
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the
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the this is
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the biggest collection the new in
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original form the Baltz the victims of the Nazi
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the eighth
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in and the concentration camp like the whole building but then there's not so
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on
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all wars written down from the nazis
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the victims
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lost their names and the becomes numbers
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and we see today many many
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also presence rights laws Oz's sick it all the smoke inhalation
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this same I want to know what's happened is Mike then pop
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there for me need the documentation the
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the
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who
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what we have here in the ideas around 2,000
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of the scandal of suspects from wallets with photos
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up to what's just brings small bracelets the center aisle
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know we are doing re identification round of these effects
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very hot because he has to identify first
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people photos Paris you have sometimes the original effects
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envelopes from the camps baths various officials
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bureaucracy you have the name of the company plaintiff
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like you know yeah it was a tendon made from
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concentration camp mind I'll don't
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he left just small wats a small ring
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and some other valuables
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which are not in this and a lot anymore so they follow
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taking blame 0 I'll
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the
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well
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the
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the
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when we talk deeply personal id
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about where are you first came face to face
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was the presence and absence my father died in nineteen ninety
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home a religious jew we observe
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I love them the mourning period by sitting at home in receiving guests
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for seven days school children
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First Friday night we sat down to dinner and you don't mourn on the Sabbath
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School
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I was there my children with their my wife was there my
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mother was there my sister was there in my father's chosen
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we literally couldn't eat
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to my mother said you said new for this year
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because my father's absence larger than anybody process
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that you come to sobibor
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its NT you can barely
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imagine or fathom what is there
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but that absence shows presence and the ghosts at their the images in their the
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souls are there
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the evil is there the magnitude of what happened is there
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even if it's on see you work
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if you look today at the sites and destruction
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there is a paradox
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it is the presence up since and the absence
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process the you see something
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and what you see is also what's not
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there of and if you don't see something
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of then that blooms present
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for you in an extraordinary way and
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I'm not Jewish no be my family fight in World War two that I know I love
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and so I really don't have a personal connection to this history
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but I think when you handle artifacts every day
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you can't help but have a personal connection to this
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the
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the numbers are too big to understand six million eleven million it's too big
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understand
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than artifact that somebody held
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something that someone own something that someone wrote gives you and the
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City
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are
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that happens connects me
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with someone long ago did the exact same thing and
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whose life was cut short
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I don't think numbers can
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get you human and it because the whole class is the most well documented crime
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in history
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I am convinced that the truth is in a rural
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I mean I never know why
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by there's something in there that will help me
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stop that happening to other people there's gotta be
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would
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the
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the new
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by
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the
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the
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way
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would
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year
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the new
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good
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the my
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the new
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and
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what does
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the new
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the
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the
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mime
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I'm
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I'm
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theme
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are
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in
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the mold
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do it
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good