Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and | dHNfcDdZbHV4bzJrSHc
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00:00Then they put us in a train and we still didn't know where we were going.
00:07We arrived in Łódź and there was a big ghetto there.
00:30Working conditions.
00:32The dying is already very, very high.
00:36And had the war stopped at that point,
00:38we could have certainly said that this was a genocide.
00:43There were so many people,
00:46and so many hungry and dead and cold people.
00:50And there was nothing that anybody can do.
00:54The idea then becomes, slowly,
00:56we're going to send them somewhere else far away
00:59and let nature take care of them.
01:02And for a while, this means sending them to the island of Madagascar.
01:08Crazy though that might sound,
01:10after June, when France surrenders,
01:13this idea suddenly gains resonance.
01:15Because Madagascar, an island off the southeast coast of Africa,
01:19is a French possession.
01:21But the British don't surrender, the British keep fighting,
01:24the British control the ocean,
01:26so Madagascar as a solution quickly fades,
01:28and then, by the end of 1940,
01:31it becomes clear that the Jews are going to have to be pushed somewhere else.
01:35Now the Germans daily would go out and catch people in the street,
01:41put them in trains and send them out.
01:45And after a while, we started hearing that,
01:51that those people are not being sent to work.
01:56And, you know, nobody wanted to believe.