He became incredibly violent. You saw it in his plans for vengeance after the war, when he wanted to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water of German cities. To an extent everyone involved had a little bit of Isser Schmidt in them -- Abba and the others learned it in the woods. Right or wrong, they said that the war remade them in its image. |
He was convinced that Europe would be the graveyard of the Jews, so he was prepared to believe the worst. |