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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 from page 83 methods of deception and killing: 1 victims moved through an assembly- 4i line process — an oral exam to detect gold teeth, disrobing and fil- OPEN 7 DAYS: MON. SAT. 7 a.m.- 9:30 p.m. SUN. 8 a.m.- 9 p.m. ( ing into large "shower rooms," West Bloomfield Plaza • 6638 Telegraph Road and Maple • 248-851-0313 which in reality were gas chambers. The personnel had been trained to deal with virtually every sort of 141111.1111 dilkii iraimm iii illiii .....111.1 ;41k11.111 problem. When the program was terminated, they, along with the equipment — dismantled gas cham- BROASTED r QUALITY IS OUR PRIORITY • 1 coupon bers, for example — were sent east OR per person to Poland in 1940-41. By 1942, the BAR-B-Q CHICKEN medical procedures had been trans- AND WHOLE SLAB • Dine In Only OF RIBS planted to the newly constructed • Expires killing centers, where doctors 2-25-99 manned the platforms during selec- WHOLE SLAB • OPEN 7 DAYS tions and only doctors were allowed OF RIBS & SUN.-THURS. BROASTED OR to release the gas into the chambers. 11-10 BAR-B•Q CHICKEN Aviram traces the careers of two 2! FOR 118 SOUTH WOODWARD • ROYAL OAK FRI. & SAT. TO ZOO JUST NORTH OF 10 MILE German physicians. The first, 11-11 544-1211 Irmfried Eberl, a less than mediocre J L physician, eventually became the first commandant of Treblinka. He PRIVATE BANQUET FACILITIES FOR ALL OCCASIONS failed there and ultimately commit- r r ted suicide in his cell while awaiting BBQ CHICKEN I I a second war crimes trial in 1948. FOR 2 IIi I I Aviram's second subject is Carl WITH OR WITHOUT SKIN SPECIALLY-TRIMMED RIBS I Clauberg, an internationally famous ALL DINNERS INCLUDE. SALAD OR COLE I I ALL DINNERS INCLUDE: SALAD OR COLE SLAW POTATOES AND GARLIC BREAD SLAW POTATOES AND GARLIC BREAD I fertility research gynecologist. At GOOD 7 DAYS! ■ Exp. 3-4-99 JN I I GOOD 7 DAYS! ■ Exp. 3-4-99 JN Auschwitz, Clauberg had carte L L (10 4, BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER - nEXT I '2 OFF Phi lr2 $2 OFF 2/19 1999 iti,„,, " 24 Brass Pointe PxodkP9)6 24234 Orchard Lake Rd., N.E. corner of 10 Mile • 476-1377 HEALING 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.