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Doctors' Trial because he claimed to
have saved lives by performing more
experiments on some of the prisoners,
thus keeping them out of the hospital
and the inevitable gas chamber. A
brief excerpt of the trial, with Dr.
Muench in the courtroom, appears.
And here he sits, well dressed with
goatee dapperly trimmed, civilized
and evasive, telling Renee Firestone
only that "this is the way it was."
The stories unfold with painfully
familiar comments: "That was the last
time I saw my father," When the
doors [to the cattle car] opened ...,"
with equally familiar descriptions of
the trains — the stench, buckets, chil-
dren screaming, people "packed like
sardines" in "total darkness" —and
Bill Basch's haunting question: "Why
did God spare me?"
Photographs and documentary film
footage accompany these descriptions.
Familiar scenes of piles of bodies
stacked or bulldozed seem a bit over-
done and the photographs which
accompany the narratives of
Auschwitz are more or less standard
ones from the Auschwitz Album.
But the rest, the personal and his-
torical film and photographs will take
a viewer's breath away. The pictures
enliven even the most gruesome of
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moments and perfectly complement
the narratives.
The music, on the other hand,
sometimes intrusive, written by Hans
Zimmer, does not achieve such glori-
ous heights. The final segments are
accompanied by Mozart's Ave Verum, a
presumably religious work, Christian
and plaintive, but definitely inappro-
priate for a film about the Holocaust.
From a historical perspective,
Adolph Eichmann is never men-
tioned. Eichmann received orders
from Himmler to stop the deporta-
tions of Hungarian Jews.
Eichmann disobeyed Himmler's
order, determining that the "law,"
Hitler's words, superceded an order.
That "law" was to pursue the Final
Solution to its conclusion.
It has been a convention of the
Spielberg interviews to conclude the
testimonies with uplifting family
scenes and a sense of joy in survival.
These sentiments appear in The Last
Days as the survivors describe the lib-
eration and after. Irene Zisblatt defines
liberation as "a present from the
world." Bill Basch asserts that "the
pleasure of living is wonderful." The
scenes of children and grandchildren
fill us with hope and that feeling is
buoyed by still other voices.
blanche to develop quick methods of
sterilization of women.
After the war, despite being con-
demned, the German Medical
Union did not revoke his license to
practice. A prolonged protest by a
group of physicians who had been
imprisoned at Auschwitz accom-
plished that, and Clauberg died in
prison in 1957.
The German Professor Mueller-
Hill indicts the entire profession for
such indifference. He and others
raise the issue of contemporary med-
ical ethics.
Aviram questions several German
medical students and all but one seem
to think that the Hippocratic Oath
and ethical behavior ought not be
taught in medical school — the "cur-
riculum is already too demanding."
Included, too, are Lanzmannesque
interviews with Germans and Poles
who recall the war years: Dr.
Mengele's photographer ("a dirty busi-
ness"); a Polish man who recalls the
beginnings of the construction of
Belzec; and a German woman from
Brandenburg who speaks of the cre-
matorium smell that permeated the
streets of the city when they burned
bodies at the Brandenburg hospital.