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also ‘because ninety-five per cent of Polish
jokes in Poland are making fun of the government. I had to deal with communist authorities and they would be in trouble if they were giving information to someone who pokes fun at the regime. Even
though everybody knew “Kukin” was me, they could pretend not to know.’
    His other theme stems from his half-century of experience with genocide – too much of it first-hand – in which he has discerned that ‘in the whole human history, whenever a
crime was committed against an innocent people, there were always the same six components:
    ‘
Hatred
is the juice on which those two monsters of human history, Hitler and Stalin, survived. In all countries of the world, most people want to live in peace. It is only the
extremism of their leaders that makes them hate and develops their hatred. None of my “clients” – not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin – was
born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.
    ‘
Dictatorship
is the second component. What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. An emperor, a king; a pope, a bishop or archbishop; a
president, a general, a committee or a commission like the Spanish Inquisition that has the power in a dictatorship of hatred needs . . .
    ‘
Bureaucracy
: not just people sitting behind desks, but people who follow orders to kill people. The ones who operated gas chambers or guillotines or ran torture cellars: they
were bureaucrats who became murderers. The Germans of the 1940s had many of the same slogans as the Spanish inquisitors of the 1490s, and when the Russians took over from the Germans they used very
often the same wording for their decrees. Even the Nuremberg Laws of racial purity 11 were nothing new; they were a Spanish invention. But theNazis only went back three generations while the Inquisition’s “Certificate of Good Blood” went back seven generations. No, my friend, Hitler invented
absolutely nothing, but what he had going for him was the . . .
    ‘Technology of our times, which gave him the possibility to fulfil the dream of thousands and thousands of haters for many, many centuries: a world without Jews. If the Inquisition five
hundred years ago had had the technology of Hitler, they would not have given Jews choices like “baptize or die!” or “baptize or go out of the country”. From the annals of
the Inquisition, I find that around 1485, they were looking for an inventor to make a machine that could kill seven people all at the same time. Believe me, if they’d had the technology they
wanted, no Jew would have survived in Spain, no Protestant in France, and maybe no Catholic in England.
    ‘A crisis or a war is the next component. In what other time is it easiest to kill innocent people? In a crisis, you need scapegoats and a diversion from your own problems. In a war, the
country is closed and, even in a democracy, you have secrecy. So there is no way for people to look, see, and ask questions.
    ‘A minority as victim is the last component. It can be a racial, social, or political minority that the dictators and their bureaucrats – those with power, hatred, and technology
– can hold responsible for a situation.’
    Wiesenthal goes on to say that ‘when the Turks killed a million and a half Armenians almost a hundred years ago, those six components of genocide were there and they were there, too, when
the Spanish Inquisition put twenty people on a stake and burned them. And I can promise you that Hitler has studied very carefully both those holocausts.’
    To Simon Wiesenthal today, hatred is the fuse which he fears will ignite the next world holocaust: ‘Technology without hatredcan be a blessing, though not always.
Technology
with
hatred is always a disaster. What will happen to this world when the haters of today, the terrorists, come