:08:02
The first thing that happens
when a disaster strikes...
:08:04
...is that nothing changes.
:08:06
You think there´s going to be
some great drama...
:08:09
...and you go to put your nightgown on...
:08:12
...and you say the Shema to your mother
and then you go to bed.
:08:15
And you think, "´Oh, this isn´t so terribIe."´
:08:21
But the next morning, my parents
took me downstairs into the street.
:08:26
The streets were full of new uniforms
l´d never seen.
:08:34
And the young people wore the red bands
around their arms with the swastika.
:08:39
l didn´t know what that meant.
:08:41
And they were stretching out their arms
in the Hitler salute.
:08:48
And there were flags everywhere,
these new red flags...
:08:52
...with the white circle
and the black swastika.
:08:58
My main sense
of something being wrong...
:09:01
...was the haste with which my parents
got me back into the house.
:09:13
Suddenly l couldn´t go
to my normal school anymore.
:09:16
l was sent off to a makeshift school...
:09:19
...at the end of the tramline.
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And I did it aIone, even at age 7.
:09:25
I went to the end of the Iine, and I wouId
just waIk on untiI I came to this house.
:09:31
Word got back to my parents that while
on the tram, l was a very talkative boy.
:09:35
l told them all the bad things
that Herr Hitler was doing.
:09:39
I thought that "´Herr"´ was his first name,
of course.
:09:44
And word got back to my parents
that maybe...
:09:46
...I shouIdn´t be traveIing aIone.
:09:49
And my father then came with me.
:09:51
He didn´t say much, he hardIy ever did...
:09:54
...but he Iet it be known...
:09:56
...that it wasn´t wise to go around
saying bad things about HitIer.