Friday, September 12, 1969-25
'The Avengers'—S tory of Search for Nazi Criminals
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A continuing search for the Nazi
criminal Martin Bormann, the
story of the capture of Adolf Eich-
mann, Dr. Josef Mengele's cruel-
ties, the role of other Nazis and
the search that continues to assure
proper punishment for the beasts
of the era of Hitlerism—the story
of the Holocaust is reconstructed
in a volume that deals in the main
with those who seek vengeance
and who are determined to bring
to justice those still at large.
In "The Avengers," published by
Hawthorn Books (70 5th, NY11),
the Israeli journalist Michael Bar-
Zohar, who had already written
the life story of David Ben-Gurion
and another revealing work. "The
Hunt for German Scientists," tells
the dramatic story of Jews who are
doing the hunting and the aveng-
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chased in 1923 by Menachem
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ing. "
vengeanc e"—the
assassination as an expression of
protest against Hitlerism, in 1935,
of the German official, Wilhelm
Nazi criminals" but "the Jewish w ith "the first
people who had suffered the most
were not even represented at Nur-
erbberg."
He explains that the vengeance
began on May 5, 1945, because for
Jews it did not mean the end of
the war and because Nazis were at
large, and he notes:
"The Avengers' motto in
Europe in 1945 was: 'We shall
kill so that over in Israel they
may build.' Were they right? I
don't know. History will judge
them. I don't believe in revenge.
For myself, as for many of my
countrymen, the only true re-
venge is the creation of the State
of Israel. Israel is what matters
to us. The future. Most of us
are not avengers. But we know
these people. Without identify-
ing with them, we respect these
men, proud of being Jews, who
committed violent acts, of which
they themselves are repulsed, in
the name of a whole nation, to
prevent repetition of the past."
Gustloff, in Switzerland, by David National Fund, which he headed. of many battles during the War of
Frankfurter, who now lives in The valley divides the mountains Independence.
Israel.
Also listed among the first to
protest is the journalist Stephen
Lukas who committed suicide at
a League of Nations meeting, July
And Family
2, 1936.
MR. & MRS. HARRY TUCHKLAPER
Included among the avengers
was the Jewish Brigade that
fought against the Nazis in World
War H. By including these fac-
tors as well as those of the Re-
sistance, the author completes
his story properly and gives the
term vengeance relevance.
Primarily, it is "The Hunt for
Nazi Criminals" portion of the book
that emerges of greatest signifi-
cance as an indication of a contin-
uing search, as a revelation of
the crimes and of the criminals
who were mainly responsible for
the bestialities.
There is "a warning" in Bar-
Zohar's book—"for those who might
be tempted to revive Nazism." It
is "With Operation Eichmann
(that) the avengers' aim became
to give punishment the character
of a warning."
The author recognizes that not
all Germans are guilty when he
states:
"The great difficulty for those
Avengers," translated
from the French by Len Ortzen,
not only carries full details of
the planned vengeance for the
wrongs that were committed by
the Germans; it does not limit
There were non-Jews who helped ,
itself to telling about the crimi- round up the Nazis who were
nals: it also deals with the Re- caught. There were Germans who
sistance and relates how Jews assisted. Dr. Fritz Bauer, prose-
had refused to yield entirely to cutor of the land of Hesse, a Social
the Nazi terror and about many Democrat of Jewish origin, was
who fought back courageously. especially helpful and after "The
The avengers sought justice even Avengers" was published, its au-
when it transcended ordinary thor revealed that Bauer had given
law. The author pays honor to information that led to Eichmann's
the vengeance seekers and de- capture. He made the revelation
clares: "The Jewish vengeance after Bauer's death, as a protection
who have suffered the most is
is a direct warning to all those for his informer.
to differentiate between the Ger-
Backed up by vast documenta-
who look back with longing to
man nation in general and the
Nazi Germany and who might tion. from Yad Vashem Institute
Nazi war criminial. Some bear,
Imitate the oppressors of the past in Israel, Wiener Library in Lon-
unjustly,
a hatred for the Ger-
Since force is, unfortunately, the don and other authoritative sources,
man people as a whole, even the
only argument that such men Bar-Zohar compiled facts about
i genu-
young
generation
which is
understand, they will know that the heroes who avenged and the
inely trying to repair the evil
Jews, too, can return blow for victims who were avenged. Sup-
done. But to understand the at-
data
plementing chronological
blow."
titude of these implacable
Explaining why he had written about the Holocaust, he listed the
enemies of Germany, one prob-
"The Avengers," Bar-Zohar states number of Jewish stifferers by
ably has to have suffered as they
that "right or wrong." Jews who countries—a total of 6.029,500. less
have done."
had suffered did not hesitate to 308,000 displaced persons—setting
Thus
we have a condoning of
kill to get vengeance and in de- the number of exterminated at vengeance while recognizing that
fense of that view explains that 5.721.500.
not
all
Germans
are criminals.
To make his story as complete
all nations involved were - given
"The Avengers" is a dramatic
the right to judge and punish the as possible, Bar-Zohar commences account of a search for criminals
and a determination to punish
them. It is a revealing work on a
subject that won't be ignored until
the beasts of the Nazi era are fully
rounded up.
`English as She Is Spoke'
in _Dover Paperback
Of Pedro Carolino's "English as
She Is Spoke," Mark Twain said,
May the Nea. Y. L'ar Bring Peace
and Contentment to all Israel
and to the Nations of the I 1 Torld
NE'ILAH PRAYER
God, that doest wondrously,
God, that doest wondrously,
Pardon at Thy people's cry,
As the closing hour draws nigh!
Few are Israel's sons and weak:
Thee, in penitence, they seek.
0 regard their anguished cry,
As the closing hour draws nigh!
Souls in grief before Thee poured,
Agonize for deed and word;
"We have sinned Forgive!" they cry
As the closing hour draws nigh!
Heal them! Let their trust in Thee
Turn aside Wrath's dread decree;
Doom them not, but heed their cry,
As the closing hour draws nigh!
For our Fathers' righteousness
Save us now in our distress;
Make us glad with freedom's cry,
As the closing hour draws nigh!
— Moses Ibn Ezra, 1070-1138
(Translated by S. Solis-Cohen)
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"Its delicious unconscious ridicu-
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vete are as supreme and unap-
proachable, in their way, as are
Shakespeare's sublimities." And
indeed, it is hard to believe that
Carolino was totally guideless in
his "new guide to the conversa-
tion in Portuguese and English."
Anyone who has attempted to
carry on a dictionary-based dis-
cussion in a foreign language
realizes the difficulties of making
sense. But here is an example of
the inherent difficulties run ram-
pant—resulting in a work of monu-
mental absurdity.
This little volume, ostensibly a
Portuguese - English phrase - book,
now available as a Dover paper-
back, is filled with miraculous stu-
pidities in the form of "familiar
phrases," "familiar dialogues,"
"familiar letters," "anecdotes,"
and "idiotisms and proverbs" in
Portuguese and a unique kind of
English. Its inspired ignorance in-
cludes many pages of familiar
dialogues "for to wish the good
morning," "for to write," "with
the hair dresser," "for to see the
town," "for to visit a sick," and
for many other situations. It also
includes a section of familiar let-
ters, such as the one written by a
"Madam of Sevigne at their daugh-
ter," and anecdotes about such
characters as the English lord who
was "in their bed, tormented cruel-
ly of the gout," and the "sophist
Zenon, the most hardy of all men
at to sustain some paradoxes."
Book knowledge is a mere nui-
sance.Jt may do for an ornament,
but never for a foundation.
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