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Show ~ o s e (1/25 / 83 ) pa ge 4 ~ ~r. K !1r. :n he'd been a shon ~eeoer o~ school teacher or piano teacher or what IT...{~ ever it r,Tas, thE=! condition¢):·· to go kill somebody and then do it with a degree of expertise when you've never had a chance to oractice it, now these are the things that I learned in the army and had a greater sym~thy for a · Jew- in Germany. A greater s~pathy for his helplessness. Yes, for hi~ and his helplessness, and yet, as time went on we knew that there were Jews that did exactly that, and they had no ulans about a to~orrow because for them there was no tomorrow because they didn't have the integrity of the depth; they didn't have a refuge, they didn't have a place to go, they didn't have the numbers, the~ didn't have any supply sources. Now, after the war was over there was a bunch of us who got together ••• when we came home fro~ the ar~y there was talk that the allies had won the war but the Jews had lost it. All we need now is for the Depres-sion to come; everybody wondered about a depression after the war. For what ever reason, it didn't happen, but anyway we thought now if we have a depression the next thing will be that everything is the Jews' fault, and by this point we had developed a sensitivity perhaps, well, that I had certainly never felt before. So, a bunc~ of us got together to decide what •• well, I'll do this a little differently •. do ~rou reme'!lber there was a picture "It can't happen here"? The title in itself didn't have any meaning except that it became an exnress1on "it can't happen here"; could the Hitler phenomenon be regenerated or recreated in the United States. Although that was not the theme of the picture, it was just the expression "it can't happen here n. So, we got together just for the hell of it and it ended up a very, very serious discussion |
