Woody Allen & the Holocaust / Jewish Identity

[DootArejo]

>The quote I am looking for, urgently, is, where he says, that the >question is
not why the Holocaust has happened, but why it does not >happen more often.
>Could you help me?

That quote is from "Hannah and Her Sisters." Fredrick, the tortured artist, has
just been watching television (professional wrestling, beauty pagenats,
deodorant salesmen), including a "very dull tv show about Auschwitz" with
pundits expressing their confusion over how such a thing could happen.
Fredrick says the reason they can't answer the question is because it's the
wrong question--given what people are, the question is why it doesn't happen
more often...

[Portnoy X]

That quote is from Hannah and Her Sisters. It's spoken by the character
Frederick, played by Max Von Sydow. He says he was watching television, and
came across a documentary about the holocaust. He shakes his head and quotes
the program as saying, ``How could this happen?'' The real question, he says,

[David Gilbert]

There's another line about the Holocaust in that movie as well. Sort of.
Woody's character asks his father "Why were there Nazis?" and the father
replies "How am I supposed to know why there were Nazis. I don't even know
how the can opener works!"

--Dave

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[SMHeyl]

Dear friends:
with your assistance I found the quote I was looking for. In »Hannah and Her
Sisters«, Frederick says:
»You missed a very dull TV show about Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips and
more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic
murder of millions. The reason why they could never answer the question "How
could it possibly happen?" is that it’s the wrong question. Given what people
are, the question is [swallowing] "Why doesn’t it happen more often?"« -
Allen, W. (1987): Hannah and Her Sisters, New York, 101.
Thanks a lot for your help!
All the best,
Matthias Heyl [SMH...@aol.com]
Dr. Matthias Heyl
SMH...@aol.com