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somebody, "What was it like around the edge of the

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picture, or what was going on behind it?"

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Or something else, then your mind is blank.

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Your memory can no longer help because you're no longer

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remembering the event.

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You're only remembering the series of pictures and images.

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And into this series of flashes of

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still life images are, of course,

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undeniably interposed and interpolated over the ensuing 50

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years, not just the product and, uh, images generated

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by her own memory, the memory of the eyewitness, but

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also images that have come from other sources, from television,

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from books, from newspapers, from reading about trials of Adolf

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Eichmann, from films like War and Remembrance with Richard- Robert

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Mitchum and the rest of it.

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Until by now, in the 1990s, there's not an Auschwitz

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survivor who doesn't know what a gas chamber looked like

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because they've seen the images in the media.

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And so at the beginning of the episode,

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at the beginning of history of this particular tragedy, back

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in 1945, when the eyewitnesses, so-called, were questioned, there were

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at that time very few in number.

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Their eyewitness descriptions of the gas chambers and the gassing

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procedure all wildly contradict each other in a manner which

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would be totally impossible if they were actually describing