At the darkest hour. How is cruelty born? ANOLEDT H., Fromm E.

- And you really did not know what was happening in Aushwitz? They didn’t notice anything?

- No, we knew nothing, your honor. We didn’t even look in that direction.

- So... So you knew which way you should not look.

The most terrible guards in the concentration camp were those who could not stand human screams. They were angry due to the fact that the prisoners do not understand what hard work the warders have, and seek only to complicate the inevitable. There were a majority: scientists, actors, teachers and ordinary people. How was the demon of fascism born and how does the logic of genocide work? Two outstanding thinkers, psychologist and sociologist of the twentieth century answer this question, to whose share the terrible fate of the silent witnesses of the most terrible tragedy of the twentieth century fell.