And I don't for one moment think her statements were the mindless yammering of a senile old woman. When studying the holocaust I must constantly remind myself not to fall into the belief that the Nazis suffered from a collective mental illness—they knew what they were doing—I want to believe that people aren't evil and must be crazy instead. Helen was being interviewed by a Jewish representative of a Jewish organization and she gave a brazen, articulate, hateful response. She's as senile and you or I.