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of all their evil actions nothing
defines the Nazis like the final
solution the murder of some 6 million
Jews but how did they get an entire
nation to buy into the wholesale
Slaughter of an innocent race they're
performing murder and terrible crimes
but at the same time trying to make it
look as though it's
correct this is the story of how Hitler
and the Nazis groomed the German people
he likened the Jews to a virus or a
wound that that won't heal using all
their darkest Arts to make them
complicit we do have partners in crime
here in the worst genocide in human
history
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of one thing Hitler never makes any
secret he hates the
Jews recovering from his wounds at the
end of the first world war he blames
left-wing Jewish politicians for
surrendering stabbing Germany in the
back in the 1920s depression he rails
against a Jewish
conspiracy the root of all evil from
communism to corrupt
financiers this poisoning of the nation
the German Jew is the Enemy Within he an
enemy in in racial terms in cultural
terms in National
terms the Jews greatest crime is that
they pollute the pure genes of the Aryan
m
race they must be
eliminated the nation is no longer
willing to be sucked dry by these
parasites everything he'd said since
1922 pointed towards the ultimate idea
that you rid yourself of the Jews
physically by 1941 he is master of
everything he has defeated France
captured Poland and his army is
advancing deep into the Soviet Union now
he can begin on a lifetime's ambition to
create a pure German Nation free of
Jews but how can he carry the German
people with
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him he has always been aware his
anti-jewish policy is an acutely
sensitive issue for ordinary citizens
in fact during his first four years in
power Hitler barely mentions the Jews in
public and when he does move against
them it is slowly step by
step they're banned from certain
professions then they lose their rights
as Citizens and their
livelihoods thousands are driven to flee
abroad during all of this
there are some objections however most
Germans just stand and
watch but the actual killing the
elimination of all those who remain
their own neighbors is still a step too
far he recognized in the German people
there was this residual sense of decency
which could be offended by horrific
policies but killing Jews is
indecent it will take all the Nazis
skill to sell this to the German
people it's a task for Joseph Gobles the
Nazis master of
persuasion Geral shares the fur's
loathing of the Jews and is determined
to convince his fellow
Germans it was Gobles who was
responsible for selling the idea that
the Jews were this kind of cancer or
this plague at theit part of German
Society he realized that if you could
control what people
consumed then you could control them and
he was one of the first people to
realize
that Cinema is one of his favorite tools
for manipulating public
opinion the film The Eternal Jew
produced by gal's propaganda
unit has a stark
message wherever Jews settle they behave
like rats and
parasites the film portrays the Jew as
the Eternal corruptor specifically of
course in the sense of of
the German people to buy into this evil
agenda is going to be a complex
process the danger lies in inflaming
public
opinion and the risk of getting things
wrong is already brutally
clear since 1939 the Nazis have been
carrying out a secret euthanasia
campaign it will become their dry run
for how to commit mass murder without
upsetting the German
public first they need willing
accomplishes pliable nurses and doctors
are instructed to single out terminally
ill and disabled
children the next step is to deceive the
people who might
object parents are told their loved ones
are to be sent to care centers for
special treatment
and finally they need a method of
killing quiet and
discreet they choose Murder By lethal
injection some 5,000 innocent children
are
killed their only crime to be sick or
disabled the truth is hidden by false
death certificates blaming measles or
pneumonia
it's Hitler sort of kind of dipping his
toe in the water with the German public
to see what he can get away
with then the regime escalates the
program targeting tens of thousands of
disabled adults in institutions across
Germany ramping up the numbers involves
more
doctors and some voice doubts about the
legality of the
policy it's a problem that goes to the
furer himself himself and so Hitler
wrote a note which he rarely did and
signed saying to the people the chancel
you concerned with the medical
profession that this was now a policy
that could be followed
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legitimately for the German doctors it's
Now official they are obeying the fur's
orders that's what the new culture is
they say to themselves that's the
environment uh that's the classic Road
to
Hell a secret Department known as
T4 is set up to Mastermind the
process to kill so many quickly and
quietly they need new
techniques what the man at T4 come up
with is a shower
room except these pipes and shower heads
don't carry
water they deliver poisonous carbon
monoxide
gas in many ways the euthanasia program
uh represents the absolute bestiality of
the Nazi
regime tens of thousands of Germany's
sick and disabled are murdered in this
way and it's an extraordinary program
because all those involved knew what was
going on it's not as if they were
blinded they accept that you euthanasia
is a legitimate policy the killing of
Germans by Germans is
legitimate but then the truth about the
killing starts to leak
out gradually of course the public
living close to those
institutions began to get an awareness
that something unusual was going on
people start to worry other sick
relatives might be the next
victims the discussion starts here and
there about will this be applied to our
wounded
soldiers the Catholic Church picks up on
the public fears and stands up to the
regime famously Bishop V galin gave a
sermon in which he denounced his program
um not on the grounds that it is
necessarily unethical to kill people but
on the grounds that these were Germans
that were being killed he emphasized
that these were our Brethren members of
our
families the outcry becomes so strong
Hitler is forced to make a rare public
climb down officially halting his
euthanasia campaign within
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description the protest against
euthanasia has taught the Nazis several
lessons first if their racial policies
threaten German families public opinion
won't wear
it second any further killing will have
to be well hidden far from Germany
itself and third the fura must not be
associated with anything
disreputable these lessons will Define
how the Nazis deal with the
Jews in particular Hitler will never
personally sign a compromising
document he didn't want his own name
associated with the worst extremities of
the anti-jewish
program 2 years into the war Hitler is
Riding High on the success of his
campaign against the Soviet
Union he is content to leave the
handling of the Jewish question to his
loyal
henchmen officially re Marshall Herman
guring Hitler's number two is in charge
of Jewish
Affairs but in fact it will be Hitler's
fanatical SS selected for their Devotion
to the Nazi cause who will deliver the
final solution
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their leader is Heinrich himler a Nazi
party member since the
1920s he shares Hitler's resolve to rid
Germany of the
Jews and his right-hand man SS General
Reinhardt hyri is even more
terrifying he found in his subordinate
rhynard hyri absolutely the perfect man
to carry out the destruction of a people
as head of the Nazi Security Forces
Reinhardt hydrick is one of the most
feared men in Germany if you gave Hitler
a piece of paper and asked them to
sketch out the perfect Nazi I think he
probably would have sketched out rard
hydri he was tall he was blonde he was
athletic he is a man of many
talents a champion fencer a fighter
pilot a skilled
violinist but above all he is a
fanatical
Nazi he had all the characteristics that
made him the Aryan Superman hyri really
is the rising man of the Nazi racial
killing
machine since
1939 hydri has been wreaking havoc in
the conquered territories in the
East his secret death squads the einat
grouin slaughter thousands of of Polish
Jews those who survive are rounded up
into
ghettos nearly 3 million await their
fate in appalling
conditions then hydri SS thugs follow
Germany's armies into the Soviet
Union continuing their murderous
campaign against the
Jews news of hydri massacres in the East
begins to trickle back home to
Germany dear Hana last night 150 Jews
were shot in this town men women and
children all bumped
off don't worry about it it has to be
done but don't tell anyone
else many thousands of Germans now know
what is happening out
east but they do nothing
it confirms what the Nazis Leed from the
euthanasia
program they can get away with killing
Jews out of sight far from
home so this was something that was
percolating
outwards inside Nazi Germany it was sort
of um you know the secret that would
never dare to speak its
name as hydri plots a far bigger attack
on the Jews he needs Authority from
above he can't get it from Hitler who
wants to keep his involvement
secret so hydri turns to someone
else and prepares one of the most
important documents in the story of the
final
solution he takes his secret letter to
the home of right Marshall heron guring
the man Hitler has officially put in
charge of Nazi Jewish
policy what hydri wants is ging's
signature authorizing him to produce a
plan for the Naz intended final solution
to the Jewish
question this is the stamp of approval
he needs
but it will be another 5 months before
hydri has his plan in
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place meanwhile Hitler's armies are
pushing deeper and deeper into the
Soviet
Union far from the eyes of the German
people hydrix killer squads are ramping
up their Slaughter of the Jews they're
looking for the most efficient method
for mass
murder still just using
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bullets soon hydrix SS develop a
Sinister
routine the Jews are rounded up and
taken to a remote execution
site the first arrivals are forced to
dig a
pit what happens next is revealed in
this amateur film shot in ltia by German
Soldier a group of Jews is lined up in
front of the mass
grave and
shot then another group is brought in
layer upon
layer the Nazis call it sardine
packing here we see a massive escalation
of the policy of extermination of the
Jews going on in effect
we have now a holocaust of Soviet Jews
already taking
place the worst Slaughter takes place in
the
Ukraine at the Ravine known as
babiar 33,000 are killed in Just 2
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days as hydri ramps up the slaughter he
finds he doesn't have enough of his
racist SS thugs he needs new
recruits there is some evidence that
there was a bit more resistance to to
taking part in the killings than than
perhaps there would have been in the IR
at grion but this was by and large
overcome and it was done by by the use
of for example alcohol uh given out
freely uh to these people that would
anesthetize them against the against the
effects if you like of seeing large
numbers of people killed in front of
them
but hyri knows this Mass killing is
still taking its toll on his
men most of these men rapidly became
horribly troubled and Disturbed and it's
very largely this experience which
pushes himla and hyrich to look for
other ways of killing huge numbers of
people back home Hitler is still looking
for a way to deal with the 200,000 Jews
living in
Germany everybody knew Jews they were
part of German Society they were Germans
they had fought in the first world war
they had won iron
crosses so gal's propaganda machine has
to be mobilized to create a sense of
difference to set them apart from their
pureblood German Neighbors
stage one give them a
star a Jewish German and a non-jewish
German may not look that different but
what you can do is label them with a
star and it's the yellow star is
absolutely key to differentiating them
and it starts kind of staining
them anyone above the age of six is
obliged to wear the yellow star of
David this is the real moment at which
they really say to the people on the
streets these people are different from
everybody else they're not German they
are Jewish and the Jews are an unwanted
race in our third
right stage two is to make sure Germans
do not socialize with Jews to keep them
physically
apart don't be foed into thinking ah
he's nice because I know him he's a Jew
they're Jews and therefore they're a
threat Geral keeps up a stream of
propaganda carrying the Insidious
message that it's not the Nazis who are
turning on the
Jews the Jews have brought this misery
on
themselves for one of his slogans of the
weak he uses a quote from
Hitler if the international Jewish
finers should succeed in plunging the
Nations once more into a World War then
the result will not be the victory of
jury but the annihilation of the Jewish
race in
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Europe it is a masterful piece of
propaganda it absolves the German people
of any
guilt the Jews will be responsible for
their own
destruction the
single most disturbing thing that Geral
achieved that was scapegoating he was
polluting the mind of a
Nation slowly but surely the Nazis are
grooming German citizens to accept the
removal of the 200,000 Jews still living
as their
neighbors however even now they are wary
of inflaming domestic public opinion
the Hardline is softened for public
consumption so that people who are
already been trained to be anti-jewish
are not pushed too
far the Man In Charge SS General
Reinhardt hydri begins a campaign of
deception the official line is that the
Jews are to be resettled in the
East HRI of course realizes what you
can't just say uh publicly it's right
we're going to kill 6 million people
tomorrow morning um you know you you got
to do a bit more subtly than that um and
you know when you're talking about
evacuating people to the east um you've
got to make it look as though they
really are just being evacuated to the
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east so hydri sets up a model camp at
teresian stat in the occupied Czech
Territory news reels are released
showing it as a safe place where German
Jews can
resettle and it was for provided with
facilities that many ordinary Germans
didn't have um swimming pools complex of
Cinemas massage areas the idea being
that although we've removed the Jew from
our midst we're not making him suffer
because we're giving him a way of life
which is perfectly consistent with
civilized
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standards It's a cruel
deceit for most Jews teresian stat is
really just a stop before they are sent
on their way to the horrific ghettos in
occupied Poland and around the
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Baltic and that's one of the kind of
terrifying elements of the Nazi regime
is they're doing performing murder and
terrible crimes but at the same time
trying to make it look as though it's
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correct but hyrri's deportation of the
German Jews creates a new
problem out in the East the ghettos are
already crammed
full because of the overcrowding local
Nazi leaders in the occupied
territories start to kill Jews to make
space for the
newcomers this almost leads to a public
relations
disaster in late 1941 a thousand German
Jews are dispatched East to the model
camp at teresian
stat and these aren't just any Jews many
of them are elderly war heroes holders
of the Iron
Cross then there's an error they're sent
to a ghetto in lvia where Jews are being
massacred but because of mix up in the
administration of it they end up in R
and most of them are
shocked it's a catastrophic
error if the news leaks out the German
people would be appalled
it's a warning to hydri and SS Chief
Hinrich himler killing German Jews needs
their close
control by now their plans for the SS to
deliver the final solution are
ready An Elegant Lakeside Villa in the
Berlin suburb of
van is the venue for a top secret
meeting high ranking civil servants The
Men Who Run the German State Nazi party
officials and members of the Reich
Security Forces assemble for one of the
most notorious gatherings in history
in this quiet palatial atmosphere all of
the stakeholders who will decide the
fate of European Jews are
assembled awaiting them will be Adolf
ikan Chief organizer of Jewish
deportation he is to become a key player
in the Nazis Final
Solution Ian was a virent anti-site he
was a uh very uh passionate man man in
many ways he was a drunkard he had
affairs he was a very committed Nazi and
he really felt that what he was doing
was absolutely right and he wasn't just
doing it because he was a a boring civil
servant he was doing it because he
wanted to kill
Jews his role today is to keep the
minutes of the
meeting the mood is relaxed despite the
Sinister
agenda Ian's Superior hydri is in the
chair first hydri makes it clear his
authority comes from the very top via
guring Hitler's number two and what he
is putting forward is an SS run
operation what hydri had to do was to
establish that what he was doing or
proposing at van was in fact the fur's
policy the meeting is so sensitive the
only reference to the Nazis real plan is
in the careful language of Ian's minutes
the Jews already under German control
will be put to work in the East the
majority will die those that survive
will have to be dealt with
appropriately dealt with appropriately
is code for what we know as the final
solution the plan is to kill all of the
11 million Jew Jews in
Europe it is
genocide this is a task too big for
hydrix death
squads it will require murder on an
industrial
scale what Hydra brought to the table
was an incredibly analytical mind a very
very cold evil way of thinking that
could just regard genocide as a kind of
uh challenge for a civil servant hydri
needs the men around him to mobilize
Germany's resources and
infrastructure they will have to be
involved in this
crime van is the coming together in
administration terms of all the leading
authorities concerned with transport
with um Gathering of the Jews with
treatment of them when they the Food
Supplies Etc that's got that's a
logistical problem that's got to be
resolved by logistical
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means to hydri relief there is no
dissent in just over an hour hydri has
the agreement he wants the German state
will be mobilized and the SS are in
charge of the final
solution now it's just a question of
practicalities
in the remote area of Eastern Poland
there are huge SES of Deep Dark Forest
if you want to get rid of a people
that's the place to do it this is a
place where people can just
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disappear the SS already has a base here
in the city of
Lublin they have rounded up thousands of
Jew into labor camps and ghettos they
must now be discreetly
killed hydri has already been
experimenting on the best way to do
it he's brought in his top expert in
mass
murder one of the most unpleasant of a
very unpleasant Bunch called Nazis was
fellow called Christian vert uh he's
involved in the euthanasia program he
designs the death rooms uh and he uses
his knowledge and experience to apply it
to extermination of Jews and he was the
one that said you can't destroy Jews at
peace meal as we did in the euthanasia
program we need thousand a day 2,000 a
day see this as a major logistical
problem on his way to Lublin vert does
some
research at the town of Helo they are
already experimenting on how to kill
polish
Jews first they are LED into a sealed
chamber unaware they are entering the
back of a large
truck exhaust fumes are pumped in and
the victims soon die of carbon monoxide
poisoning but killing one truckload of
50 Jews at a time is not going to
deliver the final
solution vert's orders offer mass murder
hidden away in Poland's dense
forests he needs a more efficient
continuous process to kill the numbers
required so at his first location near
the remote Village of
belet vert installs a static combustion
engine to pump exhaust fumes into large
sealed gas
Chambers belet becomes a blueprint for
other secret death
camps so
and
trinka with Helo they form a lethal
network of
extermination all carefully chosen
because they are close to the railway
lines the Nazis now carry out the first
stage of their
plan they liquidate the
ghettos some 1 and a half million Jews
are shipped to these
camps crammed into C met trucks and
goods
wagons brought in like
cargo to be eliminated swiftly and out
of
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sight unlike the vast concentration
camps in Germany which were
prisons these death factories take up
just a small
clearing these Forest are places where
evil happens and the Nazis chose a spot
that almost feels evil for what they did
there took place it is quite the most
terrifying spot and it's not just
terrifying because what we now know that
happened there it's terrifying because
it's remote it's dark it's lonely and
it's sort of a place that just gives you
a sense of absolute
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hopelessness hidden from German eyes the
rounding up of Polish Jews is a brutal
affair
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a very different challenge is how to
round up German Jews and send them to
the death
camps the man in charge of this problem
is hydrick killer bureaucrat Adolf
ikan he is The Mastermind of the
deportation program the Holocaust the
destruction of the Jews was a
bureaucratic process and to run a
bureaucratic process you need
bureaucrats Adolf akman is the
archetypal bureaucrat functioning in
administrative sense is the key to
success of any policy it's got to be
programmed the issue facing ikan is how
to get rid of these Jews without
upsetting their neighbors without
ordinary Germans finding out what is
really going
on the answer is the familiar Nazi
tactic
deception people are told that the Jews
are being resettled sent to a safe
destination
at the railway stations they won't see
any Sinister cattle trucks the Jews
leave on comfortable passenger trains
with tickets food and money for the
journey and this deception seems to work
on Germans and Jews this is probably the
most amazing part of the process that it
seems to all go on in a kind of matter
of fact way we don't see any massive
riots at the uh German collecting points
they do assemble thinking that you know
resettlement in the East might actually
be better than walking around a German
Street by now and being abused their
civil rights have been taken away their
dignity have been taken away their
property had been taken away many of
them thought things might actually get
better they'd accepted they had no place
in Germany and maybe hey things in
Poland could be no worse than what they
are
the Jews will not discover the truth
about their final destination until they
are far from German
soil the Nazis continue their deception
to The Bitter
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End the commandant of trinka death camp
orders the construction of a fake
railway
station complete with painted wooden
clock its hands always fixed at 6:00
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just enough to reassure the new
arrivals but this stop will be their
last convinced they are to have a shower
for health reasons men and women are
separated and remove their clothes their
hair and beards are Shor off then
suddenly they are rushed into the tube a
narrow Corridor lined with barbed wire a
dark chamber looms but it is it's too
late the journey from train to death
takes just 90
minutes the Nazis are now operating such
an efficient system nothing can stop
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it not even when Reinhardt hydri the
Chief Architect of the final solution
Falls victim to an assassination
attempt at his funeral the biggest sort
of Nazi uh showpiece funeral of the
entire period all the Nazis are there
and Hitler seems to even be shedding a
few tears at losing this sort of
rightand Arian
Superman in Hy's honor his boss SS Chief
Hinrich himler names the death camp
project action Reinhardt and vows to
step up the slaughter in
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Poland in the forests of Eastern Poland
the Nazis are carrying out their final
solution to the Jewish question it is
genocide at the end of
1942 Adolf ikan the Nazis killer
bureaucrat receives detailed reports
from the secret polish death
camps over a million Jews have already
been
killed Hitler's vision is being
fulfilled there was a time when the Jews
in Germany laughed at my prophecies but
take my word for it they will stop
laughing
everywhere follow following the Nazis
master plan the Jews are being worked to
death or murdered
outright out in Poland the Nazis are
less discreet in their
killing the midanik Concentration Camp
built on a hill in full view of the city
of Lublin was originally intended to
house Soviet prisoners of
War under SS control it becomes another
Grim destination for tens of thousands
of Polish Jews shipped in as forced
laborers living in the most brutal
conditions many of them will die from
sickness and
exhaustion as a key part of the Nazis
Final Solution the camp is equipped with
facilities for
extermination po ous carbon monoxide is
used in the gas
Chambers and a crematorium is installed
with ovens to burn thousands of
bodies death camps slave labor camps
extermination camps it's hard to Define
which is Wich at some
points all we know is people are dying
they're dying through a number of ways
starvation some are being gassed some
are being systematically killed some are
being beaten to
death 200 miles to the West one of the
largest polish work camps is transformed
into the Nazis most notorious killing
machine and it is here at alitz
burkau that the mass murder of the final
solution will reach a truly barbaric
level alongside a vast industrial
complex himler orders the construction
of gas Chambers and crematoria capable
of slaughtering up to 6,000 people every
day and the Nazis now have a new
technique for murder a chemical designed
to kill
pests zyclone B is a cyanide based
substance in a warm moist atmosphere it
turns from pellets into a highly toxic
gas the death cells were constructed
with with either pipes into them at high
level or holes in the roof through which
the pellets could be
dropped the killer pesticide is soon
being used by the Nazis on a massive
scale they are moving here into
absolutely new territory nobody in
history has attempted to do something
like this before
so they they they they are literally
finding ing their
way manufacturing zeyon B boosts the
profits of Germany's chemical industry
the complicity of the great
manufacturing chemical companies is
obvious they later at nurenberg and
afterward said we didn't know it it's
being useful why would you need zeyon be
on that scale of production if it wasn't
against
people by this stage many more Germans
are becoming aware of what is happening
to the
Jews there's one amazing incident where
a a freight train was going towards aitz
and one of the survivors said that he
was in this freight train and he said
that at one of the train stations at a
German station somebody shouted we know
where you're going to the gas Chambers
so you can see that in these little
towns even people knew what was
happening so I imagine in that
particular freight train then there was
a certain amount of trepid
to help Finance his evil plans himler
turns the final solution into a
commercial
partnership between the SS and Germany's
corporate
Giants the SS make a fortune leasing out
their Jewish prisoners men women and
children to work in IG faron's factories
we can actually see that in The Killing
process we do have partners in crime
here not just the Nazis but also here a
massive capitalist Enterprise that
enters into this project with the Nazis
and actually finances
it and it's not just big business that's
implicated in genocide thousands of
ordinary Germans are making their own
contribution so you've got the train
driver driving a trainload of Jews
across Europe he knows what's going on
but he's not asking any questions you've
got the civil servant working in some
small Department in Berlin who's
probably responsible for supplying the
cattle trucks for a certain shipment of
Jews he's just following orders but what
you've got are a lot of very small cogs
each of whom think well I'm not really
taking part in this I'm just doing a
small thing but when you put all those
cogs together then you've got a murder
machine but when you take it apart each
of those cogs can say it wasn't me with
this complicity of Silence
no German needs to speak openly about
the final
solution no one needs to take
responsibility and all of this seems to
happen with barely a flicker of protest
back
home by
1943 himler is able to declare that
Germany itself is almost uden rine Jew
free
the only resistance comes in one
celebrated
event when the Nazis tried to deport a
group of Jews married to German
women famous occasion known as the Rosen
straser Affair where a number of Jewish
men who had been rounded up their
non-jewish wives came together and
protested on
mass outside Nazi officials houses and
buildings such was their determination
that threats to them to disperse went
unheeded when the protests become public
it causes real consternation at the
highest
levels even now the Nazis are scared of
admitting what is really going
on and the Nazi officials eventually
came to the conclusion far better to
give way than to try and face them down
and the husbands were allowed to go back
to the
wives they even reprieve 35 Jews who had
already been sent to
aitz but the Rosen stasa protest is an
isolated
occasion by now the vast majority of
Germans have other things to worry about
they are starting to lose the war and
their first concern is their own
families they were being you know bombed
Around the Clock by the British and the
Americans they had huge food shortages
um their own children were dying in
droves on the Eastern Front um so you
know I think there was very little
capacity within many people's minds to
actually really care about what was
happening to some Jews
for Hinrich himler the final solution
represents a hideous
Triumph a recording exists of his speech
to a secret meeting of ss
leaders he is openly
proud this is a page of Glory never
mentioned and never to be mentioned this
admission that we can't can't be
acknowledged as heroes in the public eye
is a sure sign that what they've done
would be
unacceptable by now they have killed
some 4 million Jews since the start of
the
war another 2 million will be murdered
before it is
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over but the Germans must feel no
guilt himler shifts the blame onto the
Jews they are respons responsible for
their
Annihilation we have the moral right we
had the duty to our people to do it to
kill this people who wanted to kill
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us and so the German people become
complicit in one of the worst crimes in
history
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