Rudolf Herbert thought the crucial element in the Nazi killing machine a crucial component was deception. He wanted to break that wall of ignorance that meant Jews were arriving on those trains with no idea of their fate and he just thought somebody has to get out of here and tell the Jews what is waiting for them at the end of those railway tracks. And so he made which was we're going to give you a shower, we'll give you food, just get in, we're just moving you. So they've called pots and pans and clothes and children's books and children's toys because they thought they were going to have new lives. That made a huge difference in terms of how they behaved
Today, we’re sharing a bonus episode of Kara’s Twitter Spaces conversation recorded on Monday night. In the first part of the conversation, Kara talks to Jonathan Freedland, a British journalist and columnist for The Guardian, about the fall of Liz Truss, the rise of Rishi Sunak and the role of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in U.K. politics.
In the second part of the episode, Kara and Freedland are joined by yet another Jonathan: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. The trio discusses the rise of populism and hate speech today. They cover Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks on social media and discuss Freedland’s — aka British Jonathan’s — new book, “The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World.”
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