Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.