:01:01
That interested me from
the beginning. It interests me today.
:01:05
It led me to examine a long period,
seven years now, from when I started. . .
:01:11
. . .the issue of resistance in general.
:01:14
I'm a veteran of the Polish
armed services.
:01:17
Then you are a fighter, huh?
:01:20
It created an interesting question:
why were the Jews labeled as passive. . .
:01:26
. . .when other victims of genocide
were never so labeled?
:01:31
I don't think anybody's heard the
Rwandans described as passive. . .
:01:35
. . .or the Cambodians who were murdered
by the Khmer Rouge as passive.
:01:40
Or what happened in Bosnia-Serbia,
''passive'' was not attached.
:01:46
I kept thinking, ''Why were
Jews considered passive?''
:01:51
When you take the example of the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the largest. . .
:01:58
. . .single example of resistance on
every level. And you walk backwards. . .
:02:03
. . .as you get to know the people,
you experience that they all resisted.
:02:08
They resisted in the means
they had at their disposal.
:02:13
Take off your hat.
:02:15
No, thank you.
:02:17
I said take off your hat.
:02:20
People wondered why more Jews
didn't rebel. That's a big question.
:02:27
How can they just go so passively into
concentration camps? Why not fight?
:02:32
There's an anecdote I heard about
thousands of Russian army officers. . .
:02:37
. . .who were marched to their death.
:02:40
You know how many people were
guarding them? Two armed Germans.
:02:45
These are professional soldiers.
Why didn't they attack?
:02:49
They could've killed them.
Forty people would die, maybe 50, 1 0?
:02:54
Why didn't they do it?
:02:55
You're dealing with a very
interesting psychological situation.