The history of the 20th century told through the memories and reflections of the Spanish writer/politician Jorge Semprú | dHNfX0hOTGF0X0J4V2s
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00:00After the war, George Conrad writes...
00:05There are people who are driven to murder by their fear of death.
00:09They're not even bad people.
00:11They become murderers because they can't fight against the passing of time.
00:19Gabriel Katsia Marquez writes...
00:22Humanity is well-sufficiently civilized...
00:25to kill its fellow humans in the slaughterhouse of war...
00:28but not yet developed enough to consume them.
00:34After the war, George Steiner will write...
00:37We hate those who hold an ideal for us...
00:41a visionary promise that we can't achieve.
00:45During the Holocaust, there was talk of a mental illness...
00:49from an outburst to the unbearable pressure of that Jewish vision.
00:55Gorges Semproen will write years after the concentration camp...
00:59Was my life in Buchenwald a dream?
01:02Or was my life after Buchenwald a dream?
01:05Didn't I simply die there?
01:07And was everything else I would experience...
01:10nothing more than the gray smoke from the concentration camp?