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how did i miss the doors? ah jerusalem. the sharon, the ha center is one of the city's major outs venues. in 1961, shortly after its opening. it hosted a landmark war crimes trial. on the morning of april, the 11th 1961 crowns thronged round the building. first to the prosecutor and assistant attorneys arrive followed by the council for the defense. security is,
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ties around the entire area on the theater stage. now a court room, everything is ready for the defendants entrance. the auditorium is packed with the $700.00 observers, including $470.00 journalists from all over the world. of stifle chest, begun not vice a string. when the trial began, i was 16. i'm glad too young to be admitted to the courtroom. i'm lost. i married you needed an identity card and i didn't have one yet. aunt em, but they were broadcasting. the court proceedings live to a nearby hall in jerusalem in it was owned by guns, not as psalms heroes order. coney island moved because these in boxes as were alfredo and say line wants to perform your mission. the order
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didn't know that it is forecast. eyes are the same, uses olga shoulder. if been changed oft, i went to the hall quite often to watch us meet their lip. i skipped school a lot too. and didn't tell anyone that i hadn't gone to school that day or to see when martin had instead been following proceedings all morning. and emily says us this huge international interest as the trial opens. video footage, recorded by an american television station is being broadcast around the world with a days delay israel, the public can tune into life radio transmissions. hundreds of journalists are ready to type up daily reports from the knee by press center. the police are on high alert. the mid fears the defendant could be attacked by holocaust survivors seeking venge all by full min, nazis afraid of his testimony. for that reason,
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he will take the stand in a bulletproof glass booth it shortly before 9 a. m. as the former high ranking nazi out of iceland is escorted into his booth to face, his accuses the chief prosecutor will seek the death penalty for items alleged instrumental role in the murder of 6000000000 jews and further crimes against humanity. it was in berlin in 1933 that ato vitamins korea and the nazi party and regime began a former school dropout within 6. he is he attained the rank, a 1st lieutenant in the student, taurus, ss organisation from the outset. he embraced policies of discrimination and violence designed to drive jewish people from germany in 1938 eichmann was posted to vienna and lace of prague to implant such policies in neighboring countries,
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sits annexed by germany. a year later, he was made head of the rock central office for jewish immigration in berlin. after the 2nd world war began in 1939 jews in germany, it's occupied territories were now systematically robbed, persecuted, and imprisoned. hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes and to ported and incarcerated in ghettos and concentration camps in occupied poland. mass executions began immediately from 1941. i commenced apartment was tossed with managing nasty port, ations eichmann, and his subordinates organized rail transports across europe to the east. the nazis industrial scale, murder of jews reached new heights off to germany's invasion of the soviet union. in 1942, the trains were headed for outfits, treblinka selby bore fare yet my donek and shall know. for most
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people seized death was all but certain. ah exactly 9 am the judges take this seats in a trial that will last 8 months? the key question, what role did irishman play in what the nazis called the final solution? the court would hear over a 100 witnesses and evaluate $1600.00 documents, evidence of unfathomable atrocities that way on prosecutors, including gobeel. bah, flemish d did dare protest. emily amassed bishop petitions for me. the trial that has most preoccupied my mind and memory as the iceland track really has about a day goes by where i am not reminded of the trial in some way. i in a dreaded attorney general gideon house now opens his case against iceman. mit,
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documented value finished jordan. good, again, none of that showed eyes met in many german documents. the extermination of the jews was referred to us operation, iceland and other, and what was particular about, eichmann was that an every other branch of the assess gained, the departmental heads were replaced every one or 2 years. he glanced at craig, but to iceland remained head of jewish affairs throughout the war or air bow because he identified completely with a need to kill or juice or to it. and as a visit us, you know, that is something that is very difficult to forget of a if, if i get in contact, i'd manzona spits agency hoity as i didn't give us enough mention and an unbuttoned and be all cotton for in about an hour. so don't specialist, no entropy, happier doesn't in how does also feel and go to our by as abs. esther steady isn't in health care plant, then also on between and and organ is your thought or the under unreason. hardy's
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us, me of on bloods of a gibson when i'll and metal dis molden, stossel albany or da followed her aunts of indian i shipments represented by roberts of artists who had defended former nazi leaders at the new of their trials with west germany refusing to pay his fees out of concern for its international standing. the israel government covered because i'm going to answer and hoped for off in i'm get latin sent for question during the shoot, shoot folk the gallon, lucy durbin from leon niche started a mobile fin, the citizen that under clack middle doors room, this will nissan's plan, smoked it, in other words, eichmann had just been a small coggan the nazi machine and never held a position of leadership she wouldn't be sure there's enough lunch truly
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using a fellow passport, eichmann had fled to watch in tina in 1950 for a decade. he lived, sheltered there by old contacts within ss and catholic circles. he was employed under the identity of ricardo clement at a mercedes benz factory. the cheap off on ice men's whereabouts came from fritz bower. the jewish attorney general of the city of frankfort, a holocaust survivor, iced when was abducted by ma, said agents in this truck on may the 11th 1916 and flown out to israel by passing the argentine authorities. spy, a target that damaged by law is la. com, 2 days after iceland arrived in israel is the justice minister asked to see me. my
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dear eustace was as out that'd be said to be at mister. bah, i will probably be one of the prosecutors. somebody shovel for it. i had a bridget. but before, thus, i want to ask you to lead the entire investigation. first i was booked, fingerprinted and photographed my as ready authorities. and this is where he was held in the 10 months leading up to his trial. wouldn't a yankee prison near high through northern israel at the time a police station from the british mandate period? israel feared eichmann could be kidnapped location of his detention top secret. a special police unit was formed to both protect and interrogate irishman. he was never left alone in his cell with the lights on around the clock. each prison guard was supervised by another. the state could not risk losing eichmann to murder or suicide. his trial was too important. a plank outside the modern prison
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reminds visitors of icons, time behind these walls. the time from which few photographs have been published. michelle goldman gilliard is the last surviving officer from the bureau. o 6 unit. he was part of gabrielle box team of investigators and watched over ice men every day in prison, yvon, amish, but surely good oper, newer on thin ice run through for him, we were a special unit, formed specifically to interrogate icon, minor flish. it was a heavy burden to bear rushed on, but it was my duty by understood that i could be of service income. i spoke german anderson, which was useful deutsche because there were also written documents to review the swan o. rosa showed the commenter. investigators sifted through thousands of documents from former gym and occupied territories to understand how the extermination plans
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evolved and the role eichmann played. goldman glades area of investigation was poland. it was where he was born and persecuted by the nazis in the shall labour camp. he was nearly beaten to death by its commandant yoseph shamburger. he survived auschwitz and escaped during its evacuation by the nazis, his personal experiences and the facts. he helped uncover a painful memories. and he's never forgotten his 1st encounter with eichmann in prison. and i milan breaker can lower him on your phone when builder. i'd only ever seen pictures of iceland in his uniform for mia. but when faced with the real iceman are sitting in front of me, i just looked at him. thus deezen nish ever snobbish, had been the master deciding over the life and death full of millions of people.
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and in mention on these, the snobbish was now sitting in front of me on the hut sorting and such a face, an expression of innocence. i saw an for me is kizzie, that was almost a shock. does mafia, mich father's? i'm the assign, fostering shock. the man in charge of eye shipments, interrogation was chief inspector after less. less was born in berlin and fled germany in 1933 after the nazis came to power. in total, the interrogation sessions spent $275.00. alice did caution for div. there was a sense of disappointment and that we had automatically imagined an iceman to be some kind of monster, something diabolical. then i suddenly saw that this is simply a human being who actually looks no different than any one of us. and then it hit me was that normal looking people are capable of carrying out such atrocities this
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coast. i've been into revealing an array of details about the holocaust that he displayed no pity for the victims of ts tarka on. and before the 1st few days, i felt something akin to pity for good, and i felt like i was holding a small bird in my hand. if i squeezed it, the bird would be dead. but this feeling of pity, dissipated in the course of the interrogation. because of all the sinister deeds that surfaced honey pot, and he thought that he discussed them in such a conversational tone. it was extremely disturbing us on one hand, me. as the trial unfolded, chief inspector less presented the findings of peru, o 6 investigators their charts depicting the administrative hierarchy, the ss and its intelligent service. the s d will crucial illustrated. i from its pivotal part at executing the so called final solution recordings of iceland interrogation rules are played in court in one exert. he admits to having been
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insignificant bureaucrat to miss, but eichmann was no small cog. god knows he was more than that with me. he was the oil that was poured in. so the wheels could turn either late. that's far more than a small cog in a large machine. after a series of rules, the young state of israel was developing rapidly at the time that the trial land was made for child cities were growing. it was now the future that mattered and came outside and it was in those days, people in israel and the jewish world to we're not interested in the past heart valve home from an empty shoe lead. why? because people at last wanted to live. israel was focused on building up the state and national defense, although holocaust survive is made up over a quarter of the population. there was no widespread public interest in their
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stories. many israelis thought quietly would prime minister damage been good in said any one had survived had been either selfish or a collaborator escort to d o fossil. and there was this opinion, which was also held by ben curry on in the month that if someone had survived, it was because they were not a decent person since i am because they must have survived at someone else's expense to man. survivors will also hesitant to speak about their trauma because a new model image of jesus was being born strong and defiant on the fallen warriors of the warsaw ghetto uprising. the light 19 fifties had seen conflicts arise between the different immigrant groups been gurian recognized that israelis lacked a common identity. the holocaust provided for the justification for zionism and the concept of israel is a safe haven for jews. as the 1st witness prepared to take the stand,
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eichmann was visibly nervous and sure of what to expect. the prosecutor's list comprised more than a 100 names of people called to testify. in this next phase of the trial, the audience listened in shock was distraught survivors told this stories for the 1st time and with our i as on it now, shimeltonet honesty, men don't really go as it gets you on. and susie, in 5th, there were incredibly emotional scenes yet because that for many were hard to watch, especially in such a traumatized society as in the young state of israel vaughan. at the same time, the witnesses and survivors came to be perceived as mediators asking, they were messengers through a telling the stories of the dead rather than their eigen and wished
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courtroom footage left its global audience stumped as people began to grasp the magnitude of the suffering inflicted by the nazis lightman displayed no emotion. his sole concern was preserving a carefully crafted image. that's clear from an episode that occurred one evening after a day of proceedings via void was and am i leg and i dropped it off him. psych, info. it says, one of the things we had prepared for the trial was the documentary. i hope we had received 300 films from poland. lag meet 1000 about the gas chambers and the death camps with thousands of corpses of jews and so on. algae, or it was gruesome, right? tag owned by a nation. it so that we have spent 3 days and 3 nights watching on this footage. and put together a 4 to 5 minute film. you know,
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i was finished as i get that be fair to the defendant. didn't want to show it to the judges before he and his lawyer had a chance to view it 1st and perhaps res. objections, again, they had died at that point. and so we took them into the courtroom that evening without the judges and showed him the film dealership on the ham bids him get psyched, knee ah, shanty, i didn't feel actually shocked at seeing the images and didn't need to watch them play with eyes were on him, i wanted to see how he would react as he watched this film. ah,
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ah, i 5 on friday stores. god, if i doubt they get about freshman was totally stoic and displayed no reaction had named me. but suddenly i saw him speaking to the guard, highly agitated, alive. so when it was over, i called the guard over and asked why he was suddenly so agitated. as many mean apparently, heitman said he'd been promised he'd never be taken into the courtroom wearing anything other than his dark blue suit. what he'd been taken in after changing into his gray suit and sweater. and we shouldn't make such promises. we couldn't keep him. what is, he protested vigorously that they had taken him in like that in his gray suit and not another one that was very typical m. the prosecution strategy aim to document the different phases of nazi persecution
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and back up the evidence. survive the testimonies with exterminated set out to establish that the nazis genocidal campaign against jewish people began. long before house fits. anthony eichmann had been very much complicit, also without orders from about of german born charge benjamin helen. he used to ruse to get ice men to admit as much. he reminded him of the claim he'd made during his interrogation, that he was not an anti semite and had even helped cheers. 0. there was only this card unto them, it mattered indecent among exactly the off by the will italian financial finders of that on the hilton the for run to my not certain motto, i'm some tell you wouldn't included in the have at the hatton, i know you just attended with nam and does she own it? tough to us. these are here. mit ever been amy,
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i'm finished with content. you know exactly how good doesn't change. the name is been damaged. darn house countries can haskin when damaged and says among seconds enough that the uncle so in come on here and vino, your parts into the neon. you understand it is in your power when. oh, okay, so income i'm disconnected on this afternoon. does it from movie dani again and then then i and i was economy plus about his nico and he added us. yeah, we weren't bound to tom about this influence on didn't does off the handle. she answered unfairly. what he's bet by these are annually solano, an undulating hackney booth. to stop here, yet he gets back to a machine that he great leave on a deed here and that the our to do leave either of it celebrated mazacco gathered
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up would have bought vas genuine. i'd like to get in bed on suits of the written exam as a young man's mission laden and isn't fair. starts again. bon jovi offended, valuable advice. i'd often copy of a crown of bonds in his time. certain doctor will my that's mr. compton and i worked at sephora is, does he and i live in san vince last around in his life through mountain about wanted us to say happens out so i've been had not always followed all disc. in another case, he ordered the summary execution of a jewish man despite a general asking for him to be pardoned. germany's invasion of wisdom, poland at 1939, immediately left some 1700000, choose at the mercy of nazi brutality. forced from the villages and city homes,
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they were crowded into newly created ghettos under appalling conditions and not allowed to leave. at the time the nazis were plenty to port juice either further east in europe or to the african island of madagascar. they wanted to purge new to conquered territories incorporated to the german right of the jewish population, out of irishmen devised the details of his forced relocation. ah, already people in many places in poland were being executed merely because they would shoot leash. but it was germany's invasion of the soviet union in june 1941 that marked the start of the nazi systematic murder of jews. everywhere they were rounded up behind jim and lines denazi's plans to deport juice further eastward. automatic aska had
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proved unfeasible. now they saw only one solution genocide. the task they'll mainly to special death squads set up on the orders of hitler and ryan had hydrogen, a high ranking ss commander. they murdered close 290-0000 soviet juice in 1941 alone. while ghetto inhabitants were left to die of hunger and disease, the death squads or ions that's group and roamed newly occupied towns and villages massacring jews. they found there a strong missionary, long preserved barnett's argon, the or if cover, i can remember vividly. but one witness whose name was rough couriers, alaska english station, you limped up medea from lillia. she was a woman line who had lived in a small town dancer with her family, with the 3 small children in rosco,
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hold from the entire jewish population of this small town house had been rounded up the as, as man and brought to a particular place. husband, the humbly, the assessment of the ions that's group and shot the mo, she had her 2 small children in there. i know one was still in her arms. she told me she me outside the ss man came up to her and asked her true, who should i should versus for her? she's the child. so you are the z bins or if they asked her, she isn't until the image mapped into a me a minute. talk to vicki. listen all the dishes but in the i my natasha is m s. s munging done of me in a foster mic and in harlem on vote of some good. and it shows as acton to xena on deleted mine cup disorder. and if it's tool is a shot,
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and i my feeling the in the all the yeah, it will in the global experience. how does it feel as me a lot but does it need me to about done today? please stop by sticking me. i mention feeling of me if you will, and when doubling the cost about the mission, the whole been and the last and least little com hosting all the house by year. so how's it? and she asked me as soon as i was at your home and she told me your story, view me a globe. she said, who will believe me something like this happened in this summer house when she could see my number. a hubs convinced her how crucial her testimony would be istic
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era o sagas. as wine eventually got unblocked as my login, both on charlie's mom to hillcrest, i was on dusty dick in the corner. dick duncan looked mixed up mine and talked of life. donald lee, with least let's think roughly, you'll nominally macula macular, or from the middle of 1941. the campaign to exterminate europe's jews gained a new intensity. the ghettos was successively emptied, increasing numbers of jews were taken to the camps from germany. it's occupied territories, eichmann, and his men commandeered railway wagons, all the nice trains and drafted schedules. at the same time building was underway on large scale death camps, light bare shits and ashford spec canal life been personally inspected the
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construction sites and made suggestions on ways to make the infrastructure organization more efficient. at the van z conference on january, the 20th 194215 hierarchy, nazi officials met to accelerate the murder of ultimately 6000000 jews. and millions of other victims out of iceman had a seat at the table. he was named coordinator of all efforts towards the final solution ah, trains to putting jews and other victims from western and eastern europe now had no other destination than the nazi extermination camps. forced to stand for days on end without food or water. many people died inside the wagons on iceland, suggestion cycling be, was introduced to increase the numbers of people killed in the gas chambers. several cremmit toria would needed to cut with the volume of bodies while allied
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he buys you mavita defeated a game be to be feeling a game on. so by all the knowledge of either an animal aversion rahman, i'd refund, or not the exhibit, these are mass nama, even before in the, under the had with the leading does have your liner. what right, that is iceman, the or the following functionary, was not an anti semite. who could believe that after the evidence presented, there was no question, eichmann was a man who committed crimes out of conviction. not obligation for the survivors took the stand recounting the harrowing experiences. they screamed wept and suffered breakdowns. now at last, people were listening and starting to understand and then by unit game, they can become a resource for this my home, the 2 cities and dennis went in and hurt them. and i can be is like the common
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tolten dusk in my fun. lighten does, does kink in and then control fits you over the, to the questions you may have been seen or petroleum pan, what's in the i believe it gets filled. that's a give a kilometer, like one point mention shader can awesome on seen, told him to from soon the one to house on different line. i kinda ah, ah, the spit out of it be from the time or the conduction that fuel ordinate. that's part of mr. steve didn't yield and that's what happens. you definitely just asked me ask him either. do you think his contrition is real? had he seriously mean that was the exit?
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i said, no. i was convinced that he was merely paying lip service to the outside world to save his life songs. i told people it was possible that even this man's eyes could have been opened times in the 16 years between the wars end 945, and the beginning of the trial and 1961. and someone could have convinced him in good shape was not normally ruled out. here we had proof that that wasn't the case . had vice in 957 irishman had been interviewed not in tina by a dutch form a s s officer. villain sansom, sold the transcripts and the prosecution managed to obtain exits, the recording himself didn't re emerge until the 1970s corrected
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as bad as oh, yes. last, last mine that i found in horrid legacy flag, jazz's evangelistic event, is figures virginian avante of i all in all at that. i haven't asked the dutchman disease did you are probably in holland for the entire war. maybe you saw the trains that transported the jews from holland to 060, that must have been a marvelous sighted had i was at the dutch man didn't respond with an he asked iceland whether he sometimes felt sorry for what he done to get that. and he said, yes, i am sorry for one thing would be like that. i wasn't tough enough for that. i wasn't harsh enough. you know that i didn't fight hard enough against those damned
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interventionist as him that and now you see the results either says that the creation of the state of israel and revival of this race, there is the last adult. the court began reading the judgement on december, the 11th. it took 5 days after hearing the evidence, there was no doubt, eichmann was a central figure in the implementation of the holocaust ish breaking in anger, clark and elk grove. this is an unplug it boomed, and is for bringing the swedish, if i should ask forgiveness. paragraph answer enters gives instance with mr. album bernard's, his own information, food security. indeed we are in them said around for august 9th, and i don't fancy these. my iphone won't be at the indictment indian accent linden in the infant. i jumped and oxen lend on visits, didn't get beaten through some of me under in the turtle phone. leona, from you and in some fake the dwarf little disorganized plans, the end losing the human frog. if it was locked up on trying the up seat, does you?
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does your vote to when the, than on december, the 15th, the court sentenced ashmond to death. ah, the end of an historic trial, after a $121.00 days of proceedings, eichmann appealed the verdict at the supreme court. but the verdict was upheld on may 29th. 1962. the original glass booth, an irishman sat in during his trial is on display at the get i fight is museum located between television and heifer. next to was a panels of photos to peking victims of the holocaust. the trial served to bring their individual stories to the will to tension. at last, the murder had names again, and we're no longer just numbers on lists compiled by ashmond department,
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eichmann was hanged on june 1st. 1962, his ashes were scattered at sea. michel goldman gilliard was there and suddenly felt transported back to auschwitz, birkenau punishing buchanan while helped gazande. i'm the grocer, your boy, the mit on. when i was in birkenau shine, i saw a big building with a chimney. i'm bet i chimney come recall and next to it's a big hill on you saw the houses ushers. we came closer and i saw that it was ash when i saw this little pile of icons, ashes. i remembered that hell from i archman showed me every, not on decent bird. and only then did i understand how many tens of thousands of incinerated people had lain there for. but on to mention and decent
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the people of israel no to day that both resistance and sacrifice existed in the holocaust. neither may be forgotten because both are inherited in the identity if the jewish state. that's also the message of the yet the shame memorial in jerusalem. such sacrifice and lost must never happen again. which is why israel stands determined to defend itself against all threats. their eyes rumpled so slightly sh. i'm at 2 like p, the i shame on trial served as a therapy for the entire people. there are unfounded marks, the beginning of something that still holds true today. the still namely local that the holocaust has become a very central element of israeli identity. this ice man by day any godaddy lightman was the one who made the less the scythe, who sat at the desk near and he didn't fit the image of the nazis as monstrous,
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demonic figures were there at the morning's share chic, where he was neither charismatic dish nor brutal or cruel hours, um, he was in fact, a feeble figure. if he were desert to legal pauper ainsley, he was a pipsqueak. nobody. this icon designed that nobody was in a position to murder millions of people who all know that was a shocking fact to go down in the history of humankind. men shide school, she's too shocking, which is my some fear it could happen again as why gabrielle boss is still recounting his memories of the ottoman trial. when he walked through yad vashem memorial to destroy jewish communities. he can't help but recall the witnesses and their testimony. to the nazis destructive power. yet even when the last eye witnesses are gone and no longer able to tell their stories,
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