The National Foundation,
through the March of Dimes, has
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program for the training of medi-
`Judgment at Nuremberg' Removes Flimsy
Cover-Up for Nazism, Emerges as One of
Greatest Art Works Made for the Screen
cal and health experts ever at-
tempted by any voluntary health
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PASSOVER
IN ISRAEL
Is . it always "my country is nearly clinched. Not, how- given life sentences, not a
right or wrong" is that old, ever, for the defense, which single one remains in jail today.
can Adenauer and Globke
worn-out bit of nationalistic brings up another oft-repeated What
• in answer to this and in
medievalism to be permitted charge: that it is not Ger- say
to remain the guide for bigots many alone that is or was defense of their current posi-
and to emerge now as a defense guilty, but the entire civil- tion?
Another powerful parting
of Hitler's ideas--0.ving neo- ized world which had per-
also comes from the pre-
Nazis the right to point to an mitted the crimes and con- word
siding judge in the film. He
American cliche in defense of doned them.
is asked to see the most bril-
their post-war actions and in
The latter argument is the liant of the accused Nazi
exoneration of their crimes?
devastating rebuttal of the judges (Ernst Janning, por-
In one of the great movies claim repeated again and again trayed splendidly by B Lan-
of all -times—Stanley Kramer's by Germans today, and by caster). Janning
•sse
masterful production, "Judg- - Germans in the movie, that guilt in the c • room duri
ment at Nuremberg," seen here only a handful knew what was a dramatic
en
in , preview Wednesday night happening under Hitler, and witness
ng . tort ed by
and coming Feb. 21 to the that most Germans were un- the •
se counsel. When .
United Artists Theater — an aware of the actual brutalities. Jo
asks Judge Haywood,
American judge gives the an-
It is the servant to Judge
• saw him brie in hi
swer: if a country is to stoop Hayward, in the house assigned ell, to believe
hat h
to the lowest tactics of bestial- to him as his residence duri
of t
t
did not kno
ity in order to survive, what is the eight-month trial of
can to
A
Nazi crimes,
in him tha t crimes be n
that country going to live for? Nazi judges in Nurember the
Spencer Tracy, as Judge 1948, who tries to ski ican when he r sentenced an
innoce t an death. he
Dan Haywood in the deeply issue, who tells the A
man
moving production, gives the jurist that "Hitler d . some urd o one innoce
merit
t crime
majority opinion for the good," that he provi ilt work
the as
"Judg-
ict ttered
three-judge court, the other, for the jobless and , as the
But the
n t Nurember :
a rabid anti-FDR man of old Autobahn; but insof
mbered in e millions!
conservatism, dissenting, in crimes against the ews are
healed, but
so e hai n
issuing a verdict of guilty concerned, they did of know!
however,
against the Nazi judges who
During the trial in
their wa artificially vered! "Judg-
berg" removes
functioned under Hitler and all the crime_s emer ilizations, ment at Nu
10 Days in Israel
followed his orders unscrupu- full horrors: the st charges, the flimsy over-up! In this
lously. Tracy portrays his the false race polluti ch politi- skilful o ation the Stanley
Visit London, Paris and Rome
m emerges as -one of
role so skilfully, his acting the iron hand with w extermi- Krame
atest
works
of
art
ever
cal
opponents
were
is so brilliant, that this re-
the
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for the screen.
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—P. S.
Island and Capri
can miss being selected the
The defense attorney
best actor of the year for defend sterilization: if people
this production, or how are mentally inferior they Landsmanshaften JNF
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"Judgment at Nuremberg" should be sterilized, he argued,
Program
on
Thursday
can fail to get the year's based on the Nuremberg laws.
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Oscar.
The Committee of Lands-
How many in an audience view-
18657 Livernois, 1 1/2 blocks S. of 7 Mile
This deeply moving . 200- ing "Judgment at Nuremberg," manshaften for the Jewish Na-
minute film does more than having read only a few hours tional Fund and the Bnai Brith
expose the lie of "anything earlier the urgent plea by Council of Metropolitan Detroit
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goes" when orders are to be Governor Swainson for in- will present "An Evening of
Northland Center—In Concourse Parking Lot "C"
followed out when the fuehrer creased funds for the mentally Culture and Entertainment"
Open Thurs., Fri. to 9
speaks. It exposes the sores ill in our state's communities, for their constituent societies,
that can never heal—the great must have thought to them- lodges and chapters and their
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crime of Nazism — in all its selves: under Hitler the prob- friends 8:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at
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-ugliness, for the world to wit- lem would be solved—by means the Hayim Greenberg Center.
Open Thurs., Fri. to 9 .
ness them again, for mankind of exterminations and •steriliza- Judge Nathan J. Kaufman will
to sit in shame while viewing tions!
be guest speaker and toast-
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master will be attorney Aaron
the brutalities of Germany.
"Judgment
at
Nuremberg"
Richard Widmark, as Col. poses another challenge — to Rosenberg. Guest artists, above,
Wonderland Center —Livonia, Mich.
Tad Lawson, the prosecuting those who, like the military will be the Israeli Instrumental
attorney, appears in the eyes officials in the film, tried to Quartette.
of some Germans who are try-
pressures upon the
ing to secure a "forget it" atti- exert
for leniency for the
tude on the part of the Ameri- court
criminals
because Germany
DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN
can occupation forces, as a is needed as
America's
friend
bitter man who refuses to recog- to fight Communism in Ber-
nize that not all Germans are lin. Is this being repeated
guilty, who fails to work for today? The court at Nureih-
a "forget it" approach.
in the great film under
Yet, it is the defense counsel, berg,
review,
refused to yield to
Maximilian Schell, who appears this pressure.
Justice is not
as Hans Rolfe, who begins his
in the American
argument by asserting arro- sacrificed
gantly that all Germans are on courtroom in the name of.
trial, that the defendants were expediency.
When Judge Haywood (Spen-
merely "following orders." The
audience becomes aware im- cer Tracy) is about to leave for
mediately that they are witness- the airport to return to his
ing a replica of the Eichmann home in Maine, the defense
trial, and are hearing echoes counsel offers to bet him (the
of Eichmann's defense, in this judge says he is not a betting
man) that in less than. five
great film.
Eut the prosecutor had years all of the criminal judges
been at Dachau, and when who were given life sentences
he shows the films that were will be free men. Fashioned on
taken of the sick and the the screen as a parting • word
dead and the ovens in which to the audience is the, state-
emorial Bldg.
hundreds of thousands were . ment that of the 92 men at the
At the Beau
cremated, his argument 1948 Nuremberg trial who were
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