• THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 13, 1973-13 Hebrew U. to Open Sephardi Institute JERUSALEM—A research Sephardi and Oriental Jew- institute for the study of the ish heritage will be estab- lished by the Hebrew Uni- * * * * IBM * * * * versity in cooperation with the Council of Sephardi Com- * TYPEWRITERS * * munities in Jerusalem and Factory Sealed '0( reg. $750 the World Sephardi Federa- $369.99 * tion• Add 'n Type * - 4, 342-7800 399-8 3 3 3 Hitler's Last Ten Days . . . Record of His Maniacal Bestialities ...The Book and the Movie ...Terrors Against Generals Exposed, but Holocaust Ignored "Hitler — The Last Ten Days" is the eye-witness ac- Acquire the saving habit— count of Gerhard Boldt, pub- it takes money to buy time. lished by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. It is also the title of the film to be shown in theaters throughout the country — a movie that has already been widely acclaim- ed because of the masterful acting of Alec Guinness in the title role. signed to the intelligence staff of Gen. Reinhard Gehlen in Berlin. That im- portant link also brought him into the film, and he is rep- resented in it as Captain Hoffman. revised English translation by Sandra Bance, is viewed as of such great importance in its description of Hitler's maniacal acts towards the end of his life, that Gerhard Boldt's recollections of the intimacies caused the Para- mount film producers to en- list him as a technical ad- viser in the film's prepara- tion. The Fuehrer then was sheltered in the bunkers of the Reichs Chancellery. The main characters in the Nazi organization were there, and Boldt describes the brutal aspects of the character of Martin Bormann, who has definitely been proclaimed by a study commission as having died the same time as Hitler, based on analysis of his skull; he tells about the arrogance of Josef Goeb- bels, who was there with his wife — a violent Nazi — and his five children; Her- mann Goering, who was de- moted by Hitler and ordered to be placed under arrest because the Fuehrer believed he was betraying him. There were the generals who warned Hitler against his tactics and pointed to his suicidal views which spelled destruction for the German forces. But he was the madman who, while wit- nessing the failures as the Russian troops were ap- proaching Berlin, insisted upon giving irrational orders and sacrificing. In the final days of the Hitler era, Boldt became the chief aide of Gen. Heinz Guderian, of the German general staff, and in that Boldt's account of Hitler's capacity he was always final days, first written in present when conferences 1947 and now offered in the were called by Adolf Hitler. SHIRTS AND SWEATERS FROM MONTREAL. A full collection of I. Miller stretch nylon shirts. $22 apiece. Coordinating sleeveless shrink sweaters from Avan te Guarde, $13. Shirt-sweater combinations at a no-surprise $35.00. ‘VetnciNike The Jewish Cultural Com- munity of Munich protested against the world premiere of the film "Hitler — The Last Ten Days" which was to be held in the Bavarian capital April 20, Hitler's birthday. Dr. Hans Lam, president of t h e community, described the timing of the premiere as "provocative exploitation." The film distributor said the timing was coincidental. ( MEN'S WEAR ABOUT A YEAR AHEAD OF DETROIT Von Dyke Stores in Warren and Utica • Next Door Stores in Warren, Utica, Birmingham, Pleasant Ridge, Mt. Clements and Eastland Boldt came to be so close to Hitler because he was as- :auder's Scotch 100% Blended Scotch Whiskies, Imported By Gooderhom & Worts, Ltd., Detroit, Mich. Eighty-six Proof. Canadian R & R Blended Canadian Whisky, Imported by Associated Importers, Inc. Bottled in U.S.A. By Gooderham & Worts, Peoria, III. Eighty•Proof. elegant shoes; I was struck too by a pretty, diamond-studded wristwatch. Undoubtedly an at- tractive woman, but rather af- fected and theatrical. "Hitler stood up as we reported and we followed him into the conference room. Regardless of the absence of any further re- ports of success from (Gen.) Wenck, he once again grasped at thtis straw. He wanted to de- lay the end of the sruggle for Berlin still further, without a thought for the thousands, hun- gry, thirsty or dying in the city. And then came one of the most inhuman of his orders during the last days of the fighting in Ber- lin. Because the Russians had repeatedly pushed back our front in the city area by ad- vanc 4mg through the subway tunnels and thus getting to the rear of the German forces, he ordered special units to open the locks of the Spree and flood the tunnels of the underground to the south of the Reich Chan- cellery. In these tunnels were countless civilians and thousands of wounded. But their lives were of no importance to him, and his insane order caused many deaths. "After the conference we met Hanna Reitsch (famous Nazi woman flier). She had already made two attempts to take off near the Brandenburger Tor with the wounded Field Marshal von Greim, but each time she had to give up because the artillery fire was too heavy. During her stay in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery she had struck up a close friendship with Magda Goebbels, and I often saw them together. "A little later that afternoon some men from Hitler's Escor Detachment brought in a little boy, in a severe state of shock and looking as if he had not slept for days, who had Just put a Russian tank out of action near the Potsdamer Platz. With a great show of emotion Hitler pinned an Iron Cross on his puny chest. on a mud-spattered coat several sizes too big. Then he ran his hand slowly over the boy's head and sent him back out into the hopeless battle in the streets of Berlin." The rantings and the bes- tialities of Hitler are well told here, and Boldt certainly indicts the men who were his superiors in the German army. He exposes the beasts and he tells how they hound- ed and persecuted fellow of- ficers in the German army. Not a word, however, in this entire story about the Holocaust. Hitler gave many orders to punish those he hated or disagreed with, and Goering suffered humiliation from the Fuehrer. He might have been shot at Hitler's orders, but the death sen- tence — he committed sui- cide — came at the Nurem- berg trial. Is it possible that Boldt's experiences were en- tirely devoid of what had happened to the Six Million Jews and the many more millions of Christians on Hit- ler's, Himmler's or Goebbels' orders? That omission leaves the reviewer numb. There is something missing. There is a radical shortcoming. Too many Germans said they were unaware of what had transpired anti-Semitically. This failure in an important book must not go unnoticed. —P. S. Center Squash Teams 1st in State •• • There are brief references to Eva Braun, and the author of this chronicled story tells how amused he was when, two days before Hitler and Eva committed suicide, there was a marri- age ceremony with all the pomp and a nuptial dinner. There were 50 to 60 rooms ; IMPORTED $ c 16 $5 26 The Fifth 4 5 Qt 1 9 3 0 LAU DERS SCOTCH $ 1 2 7Gal kch&i