Yehuda Bauer quotes

Yehuda Bauer is an Israeli historian and scholar, renowned for his research on the Holocaust. His extensive writings have clarified the complexities of genocide, antisemitism, and Jewish history. He continues to shape Holocaust education and global discourse on human rights. Here are 3 of his quotes:

Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer

The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis for very specific reasons. They saw in the Jews the ultimate enemy, who was behind all the other enemies they had. And the Jews were in their eyes Satan; coming from a Christian background, although anti-Christian, if somebody was Satan you knew what to do with him. Murder him. Kill him. Annihilate him. Ultimately. Perhaps drive him out first. And then finally when this didn't work kill him. And it wasn't really directed against the Jews of country X but against the concept of the Jew. The Jew. Anywhere. Everywhere. At all times. Forever. And that is unique. That has never happened before but it can happen again. The idea of some powerful force that unless it is totally annihilated there's no chance for your survival. That was the Nazi ideology.

Yehuda Bauer