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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
38 Friday, January 26, 1919
West Germans Are Shocked and Surprised
by thedEvents Seen in the Holocaust TV Show
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sentation of the program. been made by the Jewish
Many respondents ex- Community Council of Met-
pressed the hope that if ropolitan Detroit, in order
people knew of such things, to formally express concern
they would not let them over the expiration of West
happen again, and a sub- Germany's statute of limi-
stantial majority wanted tations which will take
the schools to teach about place on Dec. 31, 1979.
Joining with represen-
the Holocaust."
The analysis states also tatives of the Jewish
that the audience for Community Council will
"Holocaust" was even more be prominent member,
self-Selected than are tele- the non-Jewish comma_-.:'
vision audiences in general: nity including Rev. E
"Persons who were in- ward Willingham, ex
terested in the subject in the tive director of the Chi
first place . . . were strongly tian Communication
represented among the vie- Council; and Charles Be.:
wers, while a sizeable prop- nham, executive director
ortion of non-viewers were of the • Greater Detroit
ignorant oNe'cent European Round Table of the Na-
history, indifferent to the tional Conference of
possibility of future catas- Christians and Jews.
In London, a leading edu-
trophes similar to the
Holocaust, and/or apathetic cational publisher has stop-
about events not immediate ped sales of a German-
language reader because of
to them in time or place."
claims that it gives a favor-
In London, an im- able picture of the Nazis.'
passioned appeal to West
Heinemann Educational
Germany not to intro- Books took the decision
duce a statute of limita- after complaints about the
tions for Nazi crimes was book, entitled "The Hitler
made by Simon Wiesent- Era," by MrS. M.E.
hal, who has •helped to Mountjoy, a modern lan- •
bring 1,100 criminals to guages teacher at a boys
justice since World War school in Kent. Her book,
•
II.
designed for teenagers, had
Wiesenthal, the 70-year- already sold 2,000 copies
old head of the Jewish since it appeared a year ago.
It quotes Hitler as saying:
Documentation Center in
Vienna, said the statute of "Who is to blame that there
limitations would be a "big is no work? Capitalism is to
political victory" for blame. Communists are to
'present-day Nazis and a blame. The Jews are to
- moral and physical defeat blame. The Jews are not
Germans. They do not be-
for the Jewish people.
Among criminals who long here. They profit from
might benefit would be Gus- German workers. The Jews
tav Wagner, former deputy get rich by financial specu-
commandant of the Sobibor lation. The Jews- always
concentration camp. have money. Only- the Ger-
Wagner is in prison in mans don't."
The book Mentions con-
Brazil awaiting extradition
' to West Germany, where he centration camps in a single
is due to 1Se tried for the sentence and ends with the •
murder of -200,000 pris- words: "On 30 April 1945
the Fuhrer dies with his
oners.
LZA to Gather
In Detroit, an appoint- wife, Eva Braun, in a
Prior to Parley
ment to see the West Ger- bunker in Berlin. Heil Hit-
A conference to be held in man Consul to that city has ler!"
advance of the national
Labor Zionist Alliance con-
vention Feb. 16-18 in New
York, will take place 8 p.m.
Saturday in the Labor
MONTREAL (JTA) — Is- sist that no matter what the
Zionist Institute.
raeli Deputy Premier future will ,bring, our army
Yigael Yadin said here that and our settlements should
Addressing the pre-
events in Iran must acceler- remain on the western side
convention conference will
be Bernard Weisberg, na- ate the process of peace and of the Jordan," Yadin said.
"We have to live with all
that a Palestinian state will
tional executive director,
and-Dr. Berl .Frymer, long- never be created alongside the dangers and they domi-
Israel on the West Bank and nate all our planning in the
time associate of the LZA.
current peace nego+' ----
Participation in the na-. Gaza.
tions."
tional movement will be
Yadin was in Montreal as
Yadin referred to the
discussed. Refreshments a special .adviser for the
potential evacuatio
will be served.
Hadassah-WIZO project for
At 1 p.m. Sunday, Dr. post-doctoral research by- Iranian Jews saying
Frymer will speak on "The distinguished scholars in "no one can be forced to
come to Israel. A few are
Role of Yiddish in the
Israel and Canada.
coming but if a real
Movement." The public is
danger threatens them -
Canadian
invited free of charge.
The
Hadassah-WIZO Jubilee we shall help."
The national conven-
Yadin said that despite
tion will assess current Research Foundation will divisions of opinions there is
help scholars from. both
programs and plans for
countries to continue their a -general consensus in Is-
future programs will be
studies, putting a stop to the rael against the creation of
discussed. International
brain-drain of highly qual- a Palestinian state which
president Yigal Allon will
ified scientists leaving their Will be dominated by the
address the convention.
country of origin for better PLO whose aim is the
Detroiters attending the
elimination of the state of
conditions elsewhere.
national convention in-
Yadin said that because Israel.
clude: Norman Naimark,.
"It is a time-bomb we
of the proposed Syrian-Iraqi
chairthan of the Detroit af:
unification, Israel is "sensi- shall never accept. The
filiate; Helen Naimark,
tive" to the security prob- Palestinians will have as
Morris Lieberman, Sheldon
lems of the Jordan Valley much autonomy as they
Klimist, Henry Faigin and
and the West Bank. "We in- want but no state," he said.
Alex Blumenberg.
which Nazi war criminals
can be prosecuted.
According to reports
tabulated by television offi-
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cials, an estimated 20 mil-
lion West Germans watched
the first two segments of the
film.
BESS ORMAN
West German television
stations and buildings used
by Jewish groups were
under guard to prevent
Press reports said that bomb attacks during the
the German viewers got a telecast of "Holocaust."
more effective broadcast
Two bombs exploded
Ceci Orman - Proprietor
of "Holocaust" for two last week at transmission
reasons: Unlike the stations in the north dur-
American broadcast of ing the televising of a
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"Holocaust" the German documentary leading up
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telecast is not 4nter- to "Holocaust." The
rupted by commercials authoritieg have said
most items reduced
and the sound track is they suspect right-wing
dubbed into German extremists' of setting the
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which, as one reporter bombs. A group calling
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noted, makes the Nazis itself the Independent
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• "every decent German
Meanwhile, Chancellor ... to prevent the trans-
Helmut Schmidt, speaking mission of Holocaust."
RIEdMAN
In a related development,
in Parliament, commended
"Holocaust" and said the a study commissioned by
film was a "must" in connec- the American Jewish
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legal time limit under "Holocaust," which was
shown on NBC television
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last spring,_ had a signific-
ant educational effect, mak-
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program's effect on its audi-
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nearly half of the viewers
Assoc.
found the four-part series
"difficult or disturbing to
watch." Further, the
analysis continues,
"majorities of both viewers
and non-viewers (in the
sample) approved the pre-'
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BONN (JTA) — Shock,
surprise and disbelief,"
along with skepticism and
hostility were among the
reactions of West Germans
after the broadcast Monday
night of the first segment of
"Holocaust" — the
American-made series de-
picting the rise of Nazism
and the brutal liquidation of
European Jewry. -
Officials of the TV station
that broadcast the film —
the WDR regional network
in Cologne — reported that
thousands of German view-
ers called after the broad-
cast with at least two-thirds
responding positively and
approving of the broadcast.
The other callers com-
plained that "Holocaust"
only opens "old wounds"
and "we should forget all
this. It is enough time al-
ready." The TV officials said
the responses to the
_ pro-
gram were unprecedented.
The station that aired
"Holocaust" is a regional
one and its programs usu-
ally attract only five per-
cent of German viewers.
However, the German pro-
ducers of the series said
they hoped for 15 percent of
the audience for
"Holocaust."
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