Gideon Hausner, Israel’s former Attorney General who prosecuted Adolf Eichmann, claimed today that the world owes “a decent life” to the survivors of the Nazi holocaust because it “kept silent” when Jews were being destroyed. Hausner, an Independent Liberal MK, spoke on a special Kol Israel broadcast at the opening of a week of memorial observances for Jewish victims of Nazism.
Noting that the systematic annihilation of Jews began only in the autumn of 1941, Hausner claimed that up to then it was possible to save Jews, but the world did nothing. Hausner also claimed that the world punished Germany for atrocities against other nations but ignored atrocities against Jews. “When Coventry was levelled the reaction was to erase Dresden but there was no reaction to the atrocities against the Jews and this encouraged the Germans to continue right to the end,” Hausner claimed.
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