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The Holocaust - Morality & Motivation

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JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Arnie Wittenstein explores the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the Holocaust, critically examining the motivations of those involved in its perpetration. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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HolocaustNazi GermanyYom HashoahBanality Of EvilMoral PhilosophyEichmann TrialDaniel GoldhagenT4 ProgramEliminationist Antisemitism

Places mentioned

Israel
"And now we're sitting here in 2025, over a year and a half into the Gaza War, and it does not seem to be working much."
Palestinian Territories
"And now we're sitting here in 2025, over a year and a half into the Gaza War, and it does not seem to be working much."
Iraq
"And it was not taken seriously and therefore as a result of that when Saddam Hussein way back in the late 70s early 80s is the reactor was destroyed in 81."
United States
"It's very hard to have discussions about all the topics in America today because of the excessive polarization that exists in American topic in American American world."
Georgia, United States
"I was born in the very deep south."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"I was had a long stopover in Frankfurt."
Berlin, Germany
"Hitler had an office on Tiergartenstraus 4 hence the program was called T4."
Germany
"It's really it's fascinating and I don't know it's finally like I knew all these let's just go over the narrative I knew the facts and it's like finally like just just I think it was something so this you know on this past Shabbos you know Shavishel Pesach said like wow that's crazy you know they started that before they really started the Holocaust."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"That gets back to our question what was motivating the person like that he clearly is not deranged."
Treblinka, Mazovia, Poland
"Those three big ones Treblinka had minimally 800,000 people killed."
Sobibor, Lublin, Poland
"Sobibor three 350 Belsitz 455 much more serious numbers."
Argentina
"Even though Germans I was in Germany a couple years ago for I was had a long stopover in Frankfurt."
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