Video Transcript

[Multiple speakers]

[shows slide saying "On June 14, 1940, the German Army entered the city of Paris, France. For years, the OCCUPATION remained in force."]

[Next slide: As second-hand CITIZENS without rights, Jews in Paris lived in constant fear.]

[Each Night, the city went dark...]

[two soldiers walk down a dark alley then stop to talk to a boy and girl couple. They let them pass.]

Boy1: It must have been late nineteen forty one or early nineteen forty two

Man 2: [Speaking foreign language]

Boy 1: Jews were required to wear the star of David and to obey the nightly curfew.

Man 2: [Speaking foreign language]

Boy 1: I had gone to play with a christian friend and had stayed too late.

[boy comes out of a house at night with a sweater with the Star of David. He takes it off and turns it inside out. Then starts walking home but sees a Nazi soldier.]

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Boy 1: He was wearing the black uniform [pause]

Man 3: Come here

Boy 1: That I was taught to fear more than others. The one worn by specialty recruited SS soldiers. I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater.

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Boy 1: He was speaking to me with great emotion.

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Boy 1: But in German

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Man 1: He showed me a picture of a boy.

[A soldier talking to Jewish boy pulls out a picture of a boy then reaches into his pocket to give him money.]

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Man 1: And gave me some money.

Man 3: [Speaking foreign language]

Man 1: I went home more certain that ever that my mother was right. People were endlessly complicated and interesting.

[shows slide saying "Not long after Daniel Kahneman encountered the Nazi soldier, he and his family fled Paris.]

[He became an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making.]

[His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.]

[In 2015, The Economist magazine listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.]

[Ending credits]

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