So it appears they took a piece out of context since I managed to find the full interview here:
YouTube someone uploaded it here.
also the paste bin of the 60 minute interview here, which shows the removed bit where he mentions he was more of a spectator:
George Soros CBS "60 minutes" Interview 1998 Transcript - Pastebin.com
the full scripting of that section appears to be:
"Krost: You’re a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian, and you watched lots of people shipped of to the death camps.
Soros: Right, I was 14 years old, and I would say that’s when my character was made.
Krost: In what way?
Soros: That one should think ahead, one should understand and anticipate events, and one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil, I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil.
Krost: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours, who swore that you were his adopted godson. Went out in fact and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Soros: That’s right, yes.
Krost: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t see the connection but it created no problem at all.
Krost: No feeling of guilt?
Soros: No.
Krost: For example that I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there. None of that?
Soros: Well, of course I could be on the other side, I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away, but there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there because that was… Well actually, funny way, it’s just like in markets that if I weren’t there – of course I wasn’t doing it – but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow, and it was the- Whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator. The property was being taken away so I had no role in taking away that property, so I had no sense of guilt.
Krost: Are you religious?
Soros: No.
Krost: Do you believe in God?
Soros: No.
Soros told us he believes God was created by man, not the other way around, which may be why he thinks he can smooth out the world’s imperfections."