Those of us who have seen just how ferocious settlers’ hatred for Palestinians can be are likely to notice similarities as they listen to this documentary.

And I was just amazed the way [that] the police were just standing by and not doing anything. They didn’t intervene, you know. It’d all been arranged by higher authority, so the police were not allowed to intervene in any way against the stormtrooper mobs who were carrying out this action.

What did the people there say?

People were just standing around gawking, so, in other words, as if it served the Jews right.

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You see, nobody bothered about how the people were to live, how they were to work. If somebody fell down, they just couldn’t care less.

They were given nothing, paid nothing, no food? Why did they work there…? Why did they work there…?

Well, in the eyes of the people there, to work for a German company would mean that you lived longer, you see.

They knew that they had to die?

Of course they knew that. It was obvious. By April 1942 they all knew. Even the Jews, every one of them. They knew what was going on.

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And I said to him, ‘How can you reconcile that with your Hippocratic oath?’ And then he replied, ‘Because I have sworn a Hippocratic oath, I cut a festering appendix out of the human body. The Jews are the festering appendix in the body of Europe, and must be cut out.’

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[T]here was an SS man there, SS people, who had told me how they had come to do it voluntarily, compulsorily, it was certainly not simple to explain. In Austria, for example, people, young men, were brought into the SS during ’44 whose fathers had been killed in the camps, so that was going on too, you know. But the typical thing was a talk with an SS man who said, ‘Well, we grew up like that. The priest, that is the clergyman who gave us instructions, he said, ‘Well, it was the Jews who killed Christ, you know.’’ And so that stuck in our minds, of course, and for all the others too. That is not the explanation, but that was his, uh…

Justification?

…justification, that the others had told him that the Jews were guilty something, namely of the murder of Christ, although the people were really not at all pious, so you can’t say that was the reason for it, but that was an explanation for him. A justification for him.