Theo Young-Smith

They are very identifiable.

They are very identifiable.

Absolutely right. They're immediately identifiable in a way they might not be in Germany, in the Reich itself. So absolutely, they live in the cities. They have distinctive clothes. They have distinctive kind of hair. They speak Yiddish as the first language. Most Polish Jews are very poor.

Absolutely right. They're immediately identifiable in a way they might not be in Germany, in the Reich itself. So absolutely, they live in the cities. They have distinctive clothes. They have distinctive kind of hair. They speak Yiddish as the first language. Most Polish Jews are very poor.

Absolutely right. They're immediately identifiable in a way they might not be in Germany, in the Reich itself. So absolutely, they live in the cities. They have distinctive clothes. They have distinctive kind of hair. They speak Yiddish as the first language. Most Polish Jews are very poor.

So they live in a part of town that's maybe a bit more run down, which, of course, then plays into the Nazi stereotype again.

So they live in a part of town that's maybe a bit more run down, which, of course, then plays into the Nazi stereotype again.

So they live in a part of town that's maybe a bit more run down, which, of course, then plays into the Nazi stereotype again.

Now, we don't need to massively dwell on this because it's so horrific, but we know that right from the very beginning, and it's not just the SS, it's ordinary German soldiers as well, as they pass through towns, they will go into the Jewish areas, they will round people up, they will shoot randomly into houses, they will mutilate people, they will humiliate the women and children, they will do all these kinds of things.

Now, we don't need to massively dwell on this because it's so horrific, but we know that right from the very beginning, and it's not just the SS, it's ordinary German soldiers as well, as they pass through towns, they will go into the Jewish areas, they will round people up, they will shoot randomly into houses, they will mutilate people, they will humiliate the women and children, they will do all these kinds of things.

Now, we don't need to massively dwell on this because it's so horrific, but we know that right from the very beginning, and it's not just the SS, it's ordinary German soldiers as well, as they pass through towns, they will go into the Jewish areas, they will round people up, they will shoot randomly into houses, they will mutilate people, they will humiliate the women and children, they will do all these kinds of things.

I mean, you know... there are horrific scenes from the outset there is no there is no question about kind of where this is ultimately all leading Ian Kershaw in his biography of Hitler He identifies in the first week of September 1939 is the point where they cross that kind of moral line. I mean, he calls it, Tom, the Nazi Rubicon, the moment they really cross the line. So moral Rubicon.

I mean, you know... there are horrific scenes from the outset there is no there is no question about kind of where this is ultimately all leading Ian Kershaw in his biography of Hitler He identifies in the first week of September 1939 is the point where they cross that kind of moral line. I mean, he calls it, Tom, the Nazi Rubicon, the moment they really cross the line. So moral Rubicon.

I mean, you know... there are horrific scenes from the outset there is no there is no question about kind of where this is ultimately all leading Ian Kershaw in his biography of Hitler He identifies in the first week of September 1939 is the point where they cross that kind of moral line. I mean, he calls it, Tom, the Nazi Rubicon, the moment they really cross the line. So moral Rubicon.

Yeah, moral Rubicon. It's up to this point. Hitler has done terrible, terrible things within Germany. But by and large, not always, of course, but by and large, there has been a sort of pathetic, flimsy legal framework like the Nuremberg Laws. And, you know, colossal quantities of people have not been murdered at this point, as in hundreds of thousands of people.

Yeah, moral Rubicon. It's up to this point. Hitler has done terrible, terrible things within Germany. But by and large, not always, of course, but by and large, there has been a sort of pathetic, flimsy legal framework like the Nuremberg Laws. And, you know, colossal quantities of people have not been murdered at this point, as in hundreds of thousands of people.

Yeah, moral Rubicon. It's up to this point. Hitler has done terrible, terrible things within Germany. But by and large, not always, of course, but by and large, there has been a sort of pathetic, flimsy legal framework like the Nuremberg Laws. And, you know, colossal quantities of people have not been murdered at this point, as in hundreds of thousands of people.

But from this point, they are clearly envisaging killing gigantic numbers of people. So as he says, this is not yet genocide. It is not yet the all-out genocide that you see when they go into Russia in 1941. But, and I quote, it had near-genocidal traits. It was the training ground for what was to follow.

But from this point, they are clearly envisaging killing gigantic numbers of people. So as he says, this is not yet genocide. It is not yet the all-out genocide that you see when they go into Russia in 1941. But, and I quote, it had near-genocidal traits. It was the training ground for what was to follow.

But from this point, they are clearly envisaging killing gigantic numbers of people. So as he says, this is not yet genocide. It is not yet the all-out genocide that you see when they go into Russia in 1941. But, and I quote, it had near-genocidal traits. It was the training ground for what was to follow.