В самый темный час. Как рождается жестокость?

- I vy deĭstvitelʹno ne znali, chto proiskhodilo v Aushvit͡se? Ne zamechali nichego?- Net, my nichego ne znali, Vasha chestʹ. My dazhe i ne smotreli v tu storonu.- Tak… znachit, vy znali, v kakui͡u storonu ne stoit smotretʹ.Samymi strashnymi okhrannikami v kont͡slagere byli te, kto ne vynosil chelovecheskikh krikov. Oni zlilisʹ iz-za togo, chto uzniki ne ponimai͡ut, kakai͡a ti͡azhelai͡a rabota u nadzirateleĭ i stremi͡atsi͡a lishʹ uslozhnitʹ neizbezhnoe. Takikh bylo bolʹshinstvo: uchenye, aktery, uchiteli͡a i obychnye li͡udi.Kak veli sebi͡a oni v samyĭ temnyĭ chas v istorii Germanii? Kak rozhdalsi͡a demon fashizma i kak rabotaet logika genot͡sida? Na ėtot vopros otvechai͡ut v svoikh ocherkakh dva vydai͡ushchikhsi͡a mysliteli͡a, psikhologa i sot͡siologa KhKh veka, na chʹi͡u doli͡u vypala strashnai͡a uchastʹ bezmolvnykh svideteleĭ samoĭ uzhasnoĭ tragedii KhKh veka.

— And you really didn't know what was going on in Auschwitz? Have you noticed anything?— No, we didn't know anything, Your Honor. We didn't even look in that direction.— So... so you knew which way not to look.The scariest guards in the concentration camp were those who could not stand human screams. They were angry that the prisoners did not understand what a hard job the guards had and were only trying to complicate the inevitable. There were most of them: scientists, actors, teachers and ordinary people.How did they behave in the darkest hour in German history? How was the demon of fascism born and how does the logic of genocide work? This question is answered in their essays by two outstanding thinkers, psychologists and sociologists of the twentieth century, who suffered the terrible fate of silent witnesses to the most terrible tragedy of the twentieth century.