Carolina QuotesSimon Wiesenthal, the head of the Jewish Center of Documentation in Vienna, expressed his feelings on the matter in a recent interview: "[...] I've battled for years with Jewish organisations, warning them that we shouldn't always talk about the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. I say let's talk about eleven million civilians, among them six million Jews, who were killed. It's our Jewish fault that in the eyes of the world this whole problem became reduced to the problem between the Nazis and the Jews; the problem obviously was much broader."
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Source
Essay, 'Hell Reconsidered' [pub. New York Review of Books, June 29 1978] - p.113
- work
- This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)
- year
- 1978
- locator
- p.113
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