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1 " There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it. "
― Simon Wiesenthal
2 " For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. "
3 " Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision "
4 " I stood up and looked in his direction, at his folded hands. Between then there seemed to rest a sunflower.At last I made up my mind and without a word I left the room. "
― Simon Wiesenthal , The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
5 " Arthur said: “A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life. "
6 " For him we were as good as dead; each of us was carrying around his own death certificate, from which only the date was missing. "
7 " God must have been on leave during the Holocaust. "
8 " Esa fue la gran fuerza de Eichmann, que tratara el problema judío sin emoción alguna; por eso fue el hombre más peligroso de todos, por estar exento de todo sentimiento humano. En una ocasión dijo que él no era un antisemita. Pero sí era antihumano "
― Simon Wiesenthal , The Murderers Among Us
9 " Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes. "
10 " La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad "
11 " ¿Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables "
12 " Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I? "
13 " Look,’ he said, ‘those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as i do—though they were not as guilty as I am. "
14 " For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing. "
15 " Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia "
16 " And I reflect that people like him are still being born, people who can be indoctrinated with evil. Mankind is ostensibly striving to avert catastrophes; medical progress gives us hope that one day disease can be conquered, but will we ever be able to prevent the creation of mass murderers? "
17 " Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día "
18 " La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material "
19 " Los nazis consideraban la eutanasia como una clase de ejecución casi ética y la reservaban para miembros de su propia raza "
20 " Si un "estudiante" no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El "estudiante" que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida "
