“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.”
About This Quote
Quoted in "Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust"—Page 29—by Harold Kaplan—History—1994
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