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00:00It feels strange being here with my father.
00:09There was a big roof over there.
00:12And as an end of the crematorium.
00:15There wasn't much conversation about Auschwitz in my family.
00:19It is a fact.
00:20My grandfather is the greatest mass murderer in human history.
00:25He was commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
00:30It was his brainchild.
00:39We had a beautiful mother and father.
00:44It freaks me a little bit when you think about just a couple of hundred yards from this joyful life.
00:50There are people being murdered.
00:53We were just a normal German family.
00:56Then the lovely Mr. Hitler appears.
00:58We became an abnormal Jewish family.
01:02When I arrived in Auschwitz,
01:04there was a band that needed a cellist.
01:07We played for the guards.
01:09Absolutely saved my life.
01:11That's the fate of the chosen people.
01:13Why don't you choose somebody else for a change?
01:15What have we done?
01:17There was a fence between the horror and the normal life.
01:22When you consider meeting the son of the commandant.
01:28The son of the commandant walking into my house.
01:39A historic moment.
01:40Who would have done that?
01:43Do you hate your father now?
01:45What is your feeling?
01:46The holocaust grows a long shadow.
01:51I think my dad subconsciously suppresses some of the experiences he's had.
01:56Inzwischen wusste ich auch was mein Vater getan hat.
02:00Do you think something like the holocaust could happen again?
02:03I mean, look at the world now.
02:06It's time to stop stupid hatred.
02:10You can't forgive what's happened.
02:13This is going to the next stage.
02:16It's not what we've done.
02:18But what are we doing now?
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