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...really tried to look, said Eichmann's dry, pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Don't Look | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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