:43:01
it is possible to reimagine
what the place was like...
:43:06
during the war.
:43:35
The first time
I came into the archive,
I was stunned.
:43:41
I had found a mission.
I had found a task.
I had found a vocation.
:43:46
When you go to Birkenau
there's very little left,
:43:50
and to suddenly
have in that room...
:43:52
that concentration
of evidence--
:43:55
There is a tactile reality,
an incredible texture,
:44:00
the texture
of making that camp.
:44:12
[ Train Whistle Blows,
Faint ]
:44:18
If Leuchter had gone
to the archives,
:44:20
if he had spent time
in the archives...
:44:23
he would have found evidence
about ventilation systems,
:44:28
evidence about ways
to introduce Zyklon B
into these buildings,
:44:33
evidence of gas chambers,
:44:36
undressing rooms.
:44:39
But then, of course,
I don't think he knows German,
:44:43
so it wouldn't have helped
very much.
:44:48
[ Typing ]
:44:51
26th of February, 1943,
:44:54
20 after 6.:00 p.m.
:44:57
Telegram to
Topfwerke Erfurt.