Raul Hilberg, author of "The Destruction of the European Jews", chose a 1988 PBS documentary, “Facing Evil with Maya Angelou” to make a declaration so startling that PBS edited it out of the broadcast. In fact, he may have implicated himse…
Raul Hilberg, author of "The Destruction of the European Jews", chose a 1988 PBS documentary, “Facing Evil with Maya Angelou” to make a declaration so startling that PBS edited it out of the broadcast. In fact, he may have implicated himself as a perjurer. Some years ago, David Cole found the original audiotape of Hilberg’s speech. [The full PBS special is online; you can see it here (https://vimeo.com/36106181). Hilberg makes his appearance at the 50:52 mark; his speech begins at 53:36.]
This is the opening part of Hilberg’s speech. For those of you too lazy to click on the clip, here’s a transcript of the censored portion:
"In 1976, I went to a small town in Bavaria, Ludwigsburg, which has the headquarters for investigations of so-called National Socialist crimes, an office maintained by the provinces of the Federal Republic of Germany. About thirty prosecutors were housed in that particular building, and I went there to study court records, various affidavits, and other materials. But one afternoon, they said, “We’re having a party today, would you join us?” Why, yes. They said, “we have one bottle of wine for each person.” (laughter from the audience). And after a while I chanced to talk to the deputy chief of that office, and I said to him this: I’ve been troubled by one question. And I’m afraid that I went into print with something that isn’t entirely accurate. And that is the role of Adolf Hitler himself in the annihilation of the Jewish people in Europe. Now, I know that you are only concerned here with live individuals, and that you do not investigate the dead.
But still … what do you think?
“Ach,” he said, “we’ve often fantasized about drawing up an indictment against Adolf Hitler himself. And to put into that indictment the major charge: the Final Solution of the Jewish question in Europe, the physical annihilation of Jewry. And then it dawned upon us, what would we do? We didn’t have the evidence.”
And he laughed. "
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