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12 Friday, June 18, 1982

Holocaust Must Be Dealt With Again

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fort of large numbers of
trained specialists who
simply did the jobs for which
they were trained. As Raul
PHILADELPHIA — We Hilberg has repeatedly
are accustomed to think of pointed out, in most cases no
the Holocaust in human explicit orders even had to
terms. The terrible experi- be given. The tracks were
ences of the victims and the built, the switches were set,
survivors come to voice in the trained personnel were
words that are familiar: on the job, and the machine
"cruelty," "barbarism," rolled forward to accom-
"sadism," "hatred," "racial plish what it had been built
prejudice," "bestiality," to do.
"murderous actions," "lust"
The individual sufferer
. . . When the familiar remembers the brutal
words fail, we fall silent in guard or executioner. But
frustration.
who put him in place and
But these are all human trained him for his work?
terms, and we sense their And more than that, who
inadequacy. In the lives of searched out the birth cer-
individuals, they express tificates or baptismal re-
something felt and known cords? Who filed the papers,
and voiced. But when we after someone else had de-
contemplate the sheer signed the filing categories?
mass of the event, and the
Who taught the Mengeles
way it has changed our in the university's medical
understanding of history school? Who taught the
and social structures, an- Freislars in the law facul-
other set of words and ties? Who trained the jour-
metaphors becomes impera- nalists to write lying prop-
tive.
aganda? Who equipped the
Hannah Arendt, in her churchmen and
illfated book on "the banal- philosophers to rationalize
ity of evil," was trying to get the purification of the "A-
something said about the ryan community" of "the
princes and powers of this corruption of Jewish blood?"
world's darkness. She exag-
When war was over, the
gerated the docility of the Germans said Hitler and
victims and overlooked the his gang did it. And the
evidence of resistance: her victors, who had defined
attention was given to the the crimes in personal
machine-like nature of the terms, fell readily into the
killing process, to the sheer same error.
inexorability of bureaucra-
Today, as the mass of the
tic procedures once the basic event and its machinelike,
decision had been entered bureaucratic operation can
into the papermill.
be nervously discussed, we
She offended many, are beginning to face the
who were concerned for fact that the Holocaust was
facts she ignored. But not accomplished by a gang
there was a truth in what of devils, by mutants in
she was trying to get said German. history and civili-
that also needs to be zation. The Holocaust was
entered into the record.
planned, supervised and
The Holocaust was not rationalized by products of
accomplished, indeed could some of the best universities
not have been accom- in the world. And they were
plished, by demon- supported in the killing
possessed individuals. The program by several
Holocaust was accom- hundred thousands of tech-
plished through the vast ef- nicians, most of them with-
out university education,
who performed with effi-
ciency what the universities
had worked out in the maze
of technical proficiencies
which function in modern,
industrialized societies.
In one sense, the most
wicked man in the Third
Reich was not Adolf Hitler.
The most wicked man was
the man who kept the books
at Auschwitz — and
rationalized that he was
just "doing his job."
It was the chief merit of
Albert Speer that he came
to see this, and that — al-
though he was neither Hit-
ler nor Himmler nor Goeb-
bels — he openly confessed
his large share in ac-

By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
National Institute
on the Holocaust

ceptance of the burden. of lawyers, doctors, teachers,
guilt.
churchmen, engineers, etc.
Churchmen
have to examine the implications
begun now, after 40 years of the Holocaust fog profes-
of numbness, to face the sional and higher educa-
implications of the tion.
Holocaust for Chris-
We shall look with eager-
tendom. In January of ness for the first university,
1980 a synod of the Pro- whether German or Ameri-
testant Church of the can, to make a break-
Rhineland adopted a through in higher education
public confession of "co- comparable to that of the
responsibility and guilt Protestant Church of the
for the Holocaust." Rhineland in the field of
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