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“The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.”

Quote by Yehuda Bauer

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Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer is a renowned Jewish historian known for his research on the Holocaust and Jewish history. Born in 1926, he experienced the Nazi persecution of Jews firsthand during World War II. Bauer's research encompasses the history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people across different historical periods. more

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