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You have to paint a picture

   At the grammar school in Wesel, there was a class where they could learn English in just one year. I was there twice and they listened to me and said, “It’s all right for you to speak in English.” I said, “No, I’ll speak in German, then you will know that you can understand what I am saying. I don’t need any notes; I’m not going to write down what I say.”

   You have to paint a picture of it all, so that they can imagine it. You can’t just say: They put six million people in the gas chambers. There’s much more to it. How people treat minorities, it’s just the same nowadays. Do you understand what I mean? That’s the main thing. In front of adults, too. I’m not nervous; I’m not a nervous kind of person. But I like speaking to children, to young people. Of course you sometimes get stupid people. But I’ve achieved quite a lot already.
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