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Timerman Deacribes Argentine Nazism
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prevent any assault.
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article in an Argentine
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after the departure from my
house, a group of military
men arrived intending to
kidnap me. On the helicop-
ter trip, one policeman told
me they had been unable to
inform me at my house of
my expulsion from the
country because various se-
curity services had installed
wiretapping devices that
could have revealed I was
leaving the country alive.
It is a long quotation but
it reveals the state of horror,
the inhumanity of a gov-
ernment agency or agencies
who persecuted and tor-
tured a noted editor, confis-
cated his newspaper La
Opinion, expelled him from
the country to which he had
made notable contributions.
The moving explanatory
description of his expulsion
and denial of human rights
is supplemented by an addi-
tional very touching dec-
laration in which he asserts:
"Have any of you ever
looked into the eyes of
another person, on the
floor of a cell, who knows
that he's about to die
though no one has told
him so? He knows that
he's about to die but
clings to his biological
desire to live, as a single
hope, since no one has
told him that he's to be
executed.
"I have many such gazes
imprinted upon me.
"Each time I write or
utter words of hope, words of
confidence in the definite
triumph of man, I'm fearful
fearful of losing sight of
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one of those gazes. At night I pares the Nazi crimes and fully laid scandals against
recount them, recall them, the reactions to them by prominent Jews, accusa-
re-see them, cleanse them, Jews and others with those tions never confirmed by
facts; nor the dedication of
illumine them. in Argentina-.
This is a philosophic and Argentine Jewish commu-
"Those gazes, which I
encountered in the clandes:- - historic study and a set of nity leaders to concealing
tine prisons of Argentina comparisons in which he these facts from interna-
and which I've retained one gives this warning to all tional public opinion by dis-
by one, were the culminat- lovers of freedom and jus- guising them as exceptional
and isolated situations. De-
ing point, the purest mo- tice:
"German Jews, between spite the fact that the
ment of my tragedy.
"They are here with me 1933 and 1938, were con- Argentine military, as in
today. And although I vinced that things would Germany, has seized banks,
might wish to do so, I could improve, and they waited. business firms, jewelry,
not and would not know how They loved their homes and property, and furnishings
to share them with you." habits; they felt that they belonging to persecuted
Jews.
The Jacobo Timerman were German.
"Nor does the key to
"Argentine
Jews,
un-
account of persecution
and torture would not be touched by irrationality, Argentina, the interesting
complete without pre- are annoyed when ques- aspect of the Argentine
senting the basic facts tioned about Jews who case, reside in the fact that
about the anti-Semitism have disappeared, about — as in totalitarian coun-
of the torturers, the the treatment of Jewish tries — most of the press
anti-Zionism as indicated prisoners, the photo- was able to survive and pre-
in the questions posed to graphs of Hitler in clan- ferred to do so by allying it-
him about his Jewishness destine prisons and bar- self with that anti-Semitic,
anti-democratic psychologi-
and his Zionism, all of racks.
"German Jews main- cal warfare, that total con-
which he affirmed with
dignity, with great tour- tained that it was still cealment of crimes, by di-
age, defying the defam- possible to resolve the prob- verting attention to other
ealities, feigning an ignor-
ers, rejecting the abusive. lem; Argentine Jews con- r
"Prisoner Without a tend that the experiences ance which at some future
Name, Cell Without a taking place do not consti- point could justify and prove
Number" is a great liberta- tute a policy but are the ex- total innocence.
"No, in my opinion, the
rian document. It is also an ception. Episodes of anti- key to the present moment,
outcry against injustice and Semitic hostility represent
a condemnation of it, and isolated outbursts of feel- to that profound mystery,
lies elsewhere. How can a
the manner in which the in- ings among certain military nation reproduce in every
humanities are exposed is leaders, not a philosophy or
detail, though employing
one of unmatched literary even an ideology.
"Some German liberals other words, the same mon-
skill. Thus, Jacobo Timer-
went into hiding during strous crimes explicitly
man:
"The police in the clan- Nazism, a very few others condemned and clearly ex-
pounded so many years be-
destine prisons like to joke. escaped the country. The
It was a form of omnipo- majority tried to become fore?
That is the Argentine
tence that consisted of con- faceless in order to survive mystery: the fact that the
verting a situation of horror inside Germany. Argentine world has been unable to
into one of diversion. liberals are also trying to
"When a political pris- survive, imagining that the avoid something seem-
ingly destroyed forever
oner was led to the torture absence of a specific denun- in 1945, in the ashes of
chamber, they used to com- ciation of the crimes being
ment among themselves: committed will facilitate a Berlin, in the gallows of
the Nuremberg Trials,
will he sing an opera or a solution of common agree- and in the United Nations
tango? If scant information ment with other military of-
was obtained, it was a ficials. The result is a corn- Charter.
"The fact that, in the
tango. When it was a Jewish plicitY, Argentine style, 1970s, a nation of no great
prisoner, the jokes would similar to the complicity importance, undergoing an
refer to the gas chambers, to that prevailed in Germany explosion of lustful, mur-
Auschwitz — 'We'll show among those who claimed derous drives, has found
the Nazis how to do things.' unawareness of what was co-existence with the world
"Omnipotence likewise happening.
"The Germans considered at large, without need of
surfaced in the forms of con-
ideology and without need
solation. 'Well, don't worry, those who denounced Nazi of despair. Merely as a bad
you only die once.' And al- crimes abroad as traitors. hangover of__that bygone
ways, seemingly normal The Argentine military period, and a forewarning
forms of humiliation. consider it anti-Argentine
that these hangovers still
"For example, gather- of those who are abroad to prevail and can recur, time
signal
this
incredible
phe-
ing all the prisoners of a
and again, with barely a
clandestine jail into a nomenon of a civilized, edu- trace of hope."
cated
country
in
the
late
single room, throwing
Jacobo Timerman is free
one on top of another, the seventies repeating the — in Israel. This is one of
same
incredible
universe,
men and women trying to
the emerging decisions of
guess their individual the same perversion of history that has given ful-
fates through some ges- human nature as overcame fillment to a man tortured
ture of the guards, all this Germany 40 years ago.
under the pretext of hav- "It is not, therefore, the for being Jewish and a liber-
ing to make a general number of horrors, the tarian. In the process of that
lengthy enumeration of fulfillment there are the
cleanup.
admonitions to mankind to
"Despite this, whenever crimes committed, the be aware of the recurring
analysis
of
methods
used
someone was being pre-
dangers to liberty-loving
pared for transfer, his eyes in combating leftist ter- and liberty-seeking people.
rorism,
or
the
elaboration
blindfolded, his hands tied
In all of these aspects, the
behind him, thrown on the of methods that might Timerman document is a
have
been
employed
ground in back of a car and
message to humanity to be
covered with a blanket, he without recourse to state on guard against the inhu-
terrorism;
it
is
not
the
would have preferred to re-
manity of man to man and
main -in the clandestine clarification of the role an indictment of all that
prison. You never knew played by state ter- leads to the inhumanities.
whether you were being led rorism, nor the perverse,
—P•S•
to an interrogation, torture, aggressive inclination of
death, or another prison the Argentine military
where once again you'd toward anti-Semitism College President
have to discover the pathe- that constitutes the key to
CHICAGO — The Sper-
tic mechanisms of survi- recent years in Argen- tus College of Judaica has
tina.
val."
"Nor is it the analysis and chosen Dr. David Wolf Sil-
Timerman's story is much
verman to serve as the
more than an indictment of study of that anti-Semitic
the inhumanities. It is an tendency which was openly fourth president of the col-
equation of facts. It corn- displayed in a series of care- lege.