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Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

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So you were not motivated in any way by money?<br />

HR: No.<br />

DH: This is from your son, he said you were lying for years and he<br />

couldn’t get you to stop, and here’s the quote: ‘It was always hurtful. My<br />

father is a man who I don’t know.’ How do you respond to that?<br />

HR: I don’t know. I can’t respond to it. I don’t know why he said that.<br />

Maybe I lost him.<br />

DH: Herman and Roma Rosenblat told their false story publicly for<br />

more than a decade but it all fell apart about six weeks ago after<br />

Holocaust scholars proved that it was physically impossible for prisoners<br />

to approach the fence at the concentration camp where Herman was<br />

kept, and that Roma’s family was actually more than 200 miles away at<br />

the time.<br />

Why did you wife agree to go along with it? Did she ever express…<br />

HR: Because she loves me!<br />

DH: Why is she not here today?<br />

HR: Because I don’t want her to be here today. It’s too much, too much<br />

going on.<br />

DH: Was it difficult for your wife to have to go out there publicly and<br />

tell a story that she knew wasn’t true?<br />

HR: It was. It was, but she loves me so much that if she thinks that’s<br />

good for me she’ll go along.<br />

DH: Rosenblat is remarkably unrepentant about his years of lying:<br />

The Oprah Winfrey Show: HR: ‘I pronounce my love for you forever!’<br />

DH: When you look at that, does that make you feel uncomfortable?<br />

HR: No.<br />

DH: You think that was the right thing to do?<br />

HR: Yes.<br />

DH: And while you’re up on the stage there, and while those people<br />

…in the back of your mind…<br />

HR: Yes…<br />

DH: …were you not thinking…<br />

HR: No…<br />

DH: I’m not telling the truth here.<br />

HR: No.<br />

DH: Let me ask you just quickly…<br />

Harris Solomon: I didn’t hear you say that we agreed to that …did we<br />

agree to that?<br />

DH: Our interview was frequently interrupted by this man Harris<br />

Solomon who says he’s planning to produce a fictionalised movie<br />

account of Rosenblat’s story despite complaints from critics.<br />

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