Trudy Gold
Eichmann, Kaltenbrunner, and Other Austrians
Summary
Trudy Gold discusses the lives and choices of Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) and Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), both high-ranking officials during the Nazi era and major perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
Yes, it could be, Margaret. Yeah. You see in the end, he’s doing a job. When you read the memoirs of some of these characters like Hoess, the Commandant in Auschwitz, he was asked, how could you do this? And he described the process, their numbers, do the trains run on time, the dehumanization. But never forget how many millions were involved in the dehumanization process. And this is the problem. And a question we have to ask ourselves, are the people who know these terrible events going on and really do nothing about it, and that includes all of us, do we share any guilt? It’s a question for you, something I wrestle with. I don’t know.