: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.
:49:01
I knew because
I was taught that they had
gas executions there.
:49:07
But I subsequently
found out...
:49:09
that the concentration camps
were, in effect,
slave labor camps.
:49:13
It doesn't make much sense
that they would take an
entire force of slave labor...
:49:18
and execute them.
:49:20
You get into a situation
where you start thinking
about what happened,
:49:23
you look at the facilities,
none of it seems to make
any sense.
:49:29
If I were to take
any one of the facilities...
:49:32
and attempt to conduct
a gas execution in them today,
:49:35
and the facilities
haven't changed at all
since 1942 or 194 1,
:49:41
then what, in effect, I'd do is,
I'd kill myself and everybody
helping me do the execution.
:49:47
I certainly don't have
a death wish,
:49:50
and I don't think
the German S.S.
had a death wish.
:49:53
If those facilities
could be made competent
for an execution,
:49:56
I would be the one
that would be able
to do that.
:49:59
I assure you that nobody could
do that better than I could.