02:38:18.780name i was going to put it with the white
02:38:21.120I was sending thousands and thousands and probably tens of thousands to their deaths.
02:38:28.120I stopped and took time out to save my life at that moment simply because I was blonde
02:38:35.120and I had blonde braids and I had blue eyes and maybe I looked like the Aryan ideal.
02:38:42.120Why would they feed us anyway if they were going to shoot us? It just didn't make sense.
02:38:49.120Herman Rosenblatt does have a real story of survival in the Nazi concentration camps,
02:38:55.120a story that is genuinely extraordinary. But as he explained to us in this exclusive interview,
02:39:00.120he felt he needed to make things up to get people to pay attention.
02:39:04.120It wasn't a lie. It was my imagination. And in my imagination, in my mind, I believed it. Even now I believe it.
02:39:17.120How can you say it wasn't a lie? It wasn't true and you know it's not true.
02:39:24.120Yes, it's not true. But in my imagination, it was true.
02:39:32.120The shower head used to disperse gas, what he used to call Cyclone B.
02:39:47.120Oh, don't stop believing. Hold on to that sweet iron.
02:39:57.120And it kicked in 20 minutes. Just 3,000 to 4,000 people in that big hole they were gas.
02:40:03.120They ran to the barbed wire to commit suicide. Then they punished us. For every man that ran to the wire,
02:40:10.120they took a hundred inmates and they killed them in front of everybody.
02:40:16.120So they said, for every person that's going to take their lives, they're going to torture to death five of us.
02:40:23.120They took a hundred inmates and they killed them in front of everybody, as an example.
02:40:30.120The women who worked in this gunpowder, with gunpowder in the factory, they smuggled out pinches of gunpowder in very special crevices in their bodies.
02:40:44.120The Sonderkommando blew up gas chamber and crematorium number four. We were jubilant.