Jews captured by the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Photo from Jürgen Stroop Report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943 , photo:
The FBI director spoke about his family roots. As a descendant of Irish Catholics, admitted that the Holocaust “has always haunted him.” This – as he said – placed the new questions about the meaning of life and suffering.
James Comey stressed that the extermination of Jews during World War II “is the most significant event in the history of mankind.” As he explained, the Holocaust was “the most terrible show in the world history of inhumanity.”
In his speech, Comey said that a “sick and evil people,” the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and went also people who “loved his family, wore soup sick neighbor, went to church and support charity. ” – Good people helped kill millions – said the head of the FBI. In his opinion, the Holocaust showed that as people “we are able to opt out of individual morality, by submitting to the authority of the group, we are able to see almost everything.”
He added that “in their opinion, the murderer and their partners from Germany, Polish, Hungarian, and many other places they did not do anything wrong. They convinced themselves to the fact that they did what was right, what they had to do. “
That’s why we ordered all new agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to compulsorily visited Washington museum and were well aware that even good people helped murder.
At these words his letter responded Polish Ambassador in Washington. “The wording of Poland unacceptable” – tweeted Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski.
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