:47:03
is a kind of exception
in this...
:47:05
because it is a letter
which is written by a person who
manages the whole operation...
:47:11
and who himself had established
a policy that you would never
use the words "gas chamber."
:47:16
Somebody
in the architecture office...
:47:18
underlined the word
"Vergasungskeller,"
:47:23
literally,
" gassing basement, "
:47:25
and put on top a note--
:47:28
"S.S. Untersturmfuhrer
Kierschnecht,
exclamation mark. "
:47:32
This means Kierschnecht
should be informed...
:47:35
about this slip.
:47:38
It doesn't occur after that.
:47:41
The Nazis were the first
Holocaust deniers...
:47:46
because they deny
to themselves...
:47:48
that it's happening.
:47:56
When my doubt
about the Holocaust
first came to me,
:47:59
it took me
two and a half years.
:48:02
I was like
a reforming alcoholic.
:48:05
I was like one yo-yo...
:48:07
back and forth--
:48:09
believe, not believe;
maybe believe;
false belief;, true belief.
:48:14
Fred was able
to purge his own mind...
:48:18
within a matter of a week.
:48:22
That's amazing to me.
:48:26
So I said,
"Fred, what convinced you?"
:48:29
He said, "Ernst,
it wasn't what I found.
:48:33
"It's what I didn't find
that blew me away.
:48:38
"It never, ever
occurred to me...
:48:42
that a man could be convinced
by something that is not there. "
:48:46
That's what Fred said.
:48:54
[ Coughs ]
:48:56
[ Leuchter ]
Before I went, I had no idea
of their purpose.
:48:59
I just knew that
they were concentration camps.