Claude Lanzmann Quotes

I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

Claude Lanzmann

• Record
• Jews
• No One
• Nazi
• Photographic
• Look At

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• I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

  

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  • Record
  • Jews
  • No One