
人们往往更容易将极端暴力归咎于野蛮人和施虐者。但正如这部纪录片所揭示的,现代种族灭绝的幕后推手往往是那些看似普通的人。
例如,维尔纳·贝斯特就是这样的一个人——这位纳粹高级官员和法学家曾参与组织杀害数十万犹太人的死亡小组,他还曾说过‘我们必须消灭敌人,但不要憎恨他们’。
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for his statement: “We must destroy the enemy without hating him.”
他属于纳粹技术官僚的年轻一代,他们鄙视20世纪20年代那些满口脏话、啤酒肚、穿着棕色衬衫的‘老战士’,并坚信应该以有条不紊、冷酷无情的方式实施种族灭绝。
He belonged to a younger generation of Nazi technocrats, who despised the foul-mouthed, beer-bellied, brown-shirted “old fighters” of the Nazi party in the 1920s, and believed in organizing genocide neatly and dispassionately.

政权垮台后,贝斯特逃脱了法律的制裁,直到1989年在德国平静地去世。
After the fall of the regime, Best escaped justice for the rest of his long life, dying peacefully in Germany in 1989.
在观看纪录片《NAZA》时,他的那句令人发寒的话浮现在我的脑海中。我在特拉维夫长大,近年来也多次前往那里。
His chilling statement came to my mind while I was watching the film NAZA. I grew up in Tel Aviv and have visited there often in recent years.

因此,这部纪录片中对24名以色列士兵和情报官员的采访让我感到格外亲切。
That is why the interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, which make up this documentary, felt strangely familiar.
采访在夜晚的屋顶上进行,镜头扫过城市景观,停留在那些居民看电视、准备晚餐的窗户上。
The conversations are conducted at night on rooftops, and the camera scans the cityscape, lingering on apartment windows as their inhabitants watch TV and make dinner. The landscape was intimately recognizable, and I felt a natural affinity with those people living their lives.

那熟悉的场景让我与他们产生了共鸣;他们的说话方式和用词也让我想起了我的儿子——十多年前他曾服役于其中一些情报部门。
I also recognized the way the interviewees talked – their speech patterns and choice of words. They reminded me of my son, who served more than a decade ago in the intelligence unit many of them might have belonged to.