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Killed Hitler. Sounds cocky and simplistic to say but the man was easy enough to approach. That is before the war. Other Germans, answering Gods admonition of being ''thy brothers keeper'' risked their lives in an attempt to stop Hitler but failed. The Holocaust began the moment Hitler opened his mouth and the German people shut theirs. He made plain from the start in his rise from the gutter to dictator what he intended to do to the Jews. Anti-Semitism didn't start with the Nazis. It had a long history in Europe and Germany. Martin Luther was a vicious anti Semite. Hitler could not have risen to power as he did and initiate the Holocaust all by himself. The middle class in Germany is the one class more responsible than any other for his coming to power and as such it was the ordinary German who became the cog in the wheels of the slaughter . Whether they shoved some unfortunate into the gas chamber or looked the other way. It's a bit of an intellectual dishonesty to do the ''what would you have done'' as a means of deflecting the issue and the blame for what a generation of Germans did. My conscience is clear. The last member of my family who fought the Nazis in Europe in my namesake and Americas has gone to his reward. You and I live in the freedom that he and millions of others fought for. As the noose was put around his neck at Nuremburg Hans Frank, ''The Hangman of Poland'' said "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased''.