Pitiful Story Out of Therosienstadt

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came trucks loaded with glitter-
ing, shiny implements which no
one of the ghetto inhabitants at
first could make out. Some fearful
souls thought at first it might be
a scientifically devised machine
with the mechanism to speed up
the extermination. But then they
caught a glimpse of those who
had entered the city of Terezin
together with the intricate equip-
ment: Germans, happily smiling.
well fed and sun-burned, who were
busy unloading cameras, arc lights,
cables and sound recorders with
the help of slave labor recruited
at random.
The film crew quickly went
about dressing up the town. The
streets were lined with patriotic

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tics. Exteriors or the vermin- under his direction, for the enjoy-
infested, medieval build'ngs were , ment of neutral viewers and to re- •
adcrn?cl with fresh spring flaw- . establish the shaky prestige of nor-
ors. For the first time in many a many throughout the world.
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year, Theres , enstrdt was fully seen it differently!
lit, a hazardous undertaking in a
When the show was cover:41 t o n
time of constant air raids.
every ca mera angle. with long
While the stage was being set i shots. medium shots and even in-
Happy New Year
for show. clean underwear and de- dividual close-ups of the involoo-
cent garments were issued to all tart' participants. the are lizles
those who were to be present on were (blunted and the film cons
the scene. Yet. most of the gh..tto . sealed. and presto — the c
inhabitant.: looked like d mimics in wand disappeared. A shallin, oro
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the ill-fitting CI Oft. 2,, which %%ere , duct ion had come to an end. Every
much too large foe the awfully crumb of food was collected by
th;n, emaciated bodies.
the kayos and punishment wos
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With apparently sztlistie
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the head of the Nazi propaganda to touch it, even . - e hit I
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might
have
eaten
from
the
candy
unit ordered Gerron. once a mas-
Friends and Customers
ter of sophisticated screen come- and cookies. Once more the .lev.s
dies, to go ahead with the trz•itic of Terezin slipped back into their
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rehearsing the miserable crowd. i Ito their misery. Again, there w:'s
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cajoling the wizened. haggard, with them the agony of starvation.
Samuel and Manny Laski and Families
shrunken human wrecks into show- -the frightful fear of torture and
ing joyful faces to those who had slowly grinding methods of row - -
spat at ;hem for too long! Huge der.
Gerron was promptly reward-
searchlights criss-crossed about
A Happy and Healthy New Year
ed for his forced collaboration.
their heads while tables were set
up in the market s..luarc, . Director j He was singled out by the Gesta-
Maurice and Irene Batchko
po
and
shipped
off
to
Auschwitz.
Gerron gave the signal for the
This was the least to be heard
cameras to start grinding, and on
cue a number of stooges entered 1 from the co-star of Emil Jan-
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many a month.
The weary inmates smiled, clubbed to death.
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While showcase films such as 1 a
shakily posing with the precious
bread being distributed among 1"Hitler Presents a Town to the
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them. Is there a greater torment j Jews" were manufactured for the
for the starving than to hold a loaf benefits of those abroad who pos-
of warm bread and not be allow- I sibly could extend their hospitality
ed to eat a bite from it? Here and to the elite of the Third Reich
there, some of the overly excited once the war was lost, the Ger-
skeletons toppled over the food- mans themselves on the home
laden tables. Children were grin- front were, fed quite a different
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both hands to some obscure candy
bars and chocolates. The camp
band, made up of world-renowned
artists who had the misfortune to
be Jewish, went into action to illus-
trate the spectacular affair with
gay waltz tunes. After all, the Ger-
mans are an extremely musical,
sentimental people.
Gerron, no doubt, must have felt

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of them "The Eternal Jew " was
to "prove" that world Jewry was
a menace to civilization and de-
served nothing better than to be
extinct forever.
Right after the war's end, the
original manuscript of "The Fueh-
rer Presents a Town to the Jews"
was brought to America by a Ger-
man cameraman trying to promote
a job for himself in Hollywood. He
Ieft town unsuccessfully but not
until some of the German-speak-
ing members of the film industry
(among them former UFA art
director Rudi Feld, a personal
friend of Gerron) had thumbed
through the whole script. The at-
random remarks by the cultural
supervisor of the film, penciled in
throughout the typewritten pages,
give us a pretty good idea of the
state of mind of those who had
sponsored the production.

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