Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Bystanders

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Bystanders: "Claude Lanzmann's documentary, Shoah, provides another portrait of the bystander.



At first, bystanders who were interviewed in this documentary engaged in self-deception about the murder of Jews. Only after lengthy questioning did they finally acknowledge that they chose their roles deliberately, even when they could have done otherwise.







 "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a communist.
 Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak out
because I was not a labor leader.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one
left to speak out for me"


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