Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity
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What Is It About the Vanse Conference?
Rachel Altschuler says she was shocked to find out that many of those who organized the Holocaust were doctors and university educated. It's taken more than 75 years after the end of the war for a book to come out on the people whoorganized the Holocaust at the Vansay, this book called The Participants by Hans Christian Yash and Christoph Kloitsmolle. And it just again, and the judgment on these people, Rachel, I mean, three of those senior figures, co authored the Newenburg race laws,. they were given suspended sentences. They lived until the 1980s. One of them died in 1987. If you were a young guard at a concentration camp and
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