I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.
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- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims that exterminating Jews created martyrs and set back anti‑Semitism, suggesting a false justification for genocide.
- In plain terms
- They argue that killing Jews was counterproductive and created martyrs.
- What can you take from it?
- Attempt to rationalize genocide as a strategic error.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What impact does such revisionism have?
- How does it serve the speaker's agenda?
Another view
Denial of the scale and horror of the Holocaust.
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