eet • • et 40 For Our Eyes, Finally MEDITERRANEAN DINE IN • CARRY-OUT • CATERING After 60 years, Nuremberg comes to U.S. screens. • „ , CUSTOMER APPRECIATION LUNCH SPECIAL 1 i s Special to the Jewish News tuart Schulberg, a Jew working for the Hollywood director John Ford in the OSS film unit at the end of World War II, was given the mis- sion of finding German-shot footage to be presented at the Nuremberg trial of the top surviving Nazi brass. Speed was essential, as Germans with access to photographic evidence were wasting no time destroying it. Although the Nazis' vast trove of docu- ments proved invaluable to Allied pros- ecutors, Schulberg's compilation films Nazi Concentration Camps and the arguably had 41/2-hour The Nazi Plan the greatest impact on the courtroom. So Schulberg was assigned by the U.S War Department to make the official film of the trial. His concise yet compre- hensive work, Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today, was screened widely in Germany upon its completion in 1948. But the film was quietly shelved in the U.S. and forgotten. For the last five years, Sandra Schulberg, the film- maker's daughter and a veteran inde- pendent film producer, has devoted herself to giving Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today a second life. "I had many doubts along the way because it was so hard to raise the money, and people didn't respond to the obvious historical mandate that it should be restored and shown," Schulberg said in a phone interview from her East Coast home. This terrifically crisp, crackling and invaluable film screens Aug. 6-7 at the Detroit Film Theatre. Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today is ostensibly a record of the trial, and Schulberg and filmmaker Josh Waletsky went to great lengths to enhance the film by replacing some narration with original audio of Justice Robert H. Jackson and the British, French and Russian prosecutors, as well as defen- dants Hermann Goering, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Albert Speer and others. (The film's original English-language narration lost, it was re-recorded by actor Liev Schreiber for the restoration.) "What surprises me," Schulberg reports, "is that people who do know this material very well, who are experts on the cinematography of the Holocaust and who didn't expect to learn anything from the film, had never heard the — — OFF ENTIRE 11 BILL CHOOSE Two Starting at I I V /0 SOUP, SALAD $ Excludes alcohol, Lamb Chops, tax and gratuity. 699 • Dine-in or carry out Must have coupon. OR SANDWICH a Michael Fox Ao/ The original passport photo of Stuart Schulberg, director of Nuremberg (1948) defendants speaking in the courtroom in response to cross-examination, or in their final summations justifying or expressing recognition of what they'd done." In the course of depicting justice being served, the documentary does an exemplary job of using the trial to frame the egregious history of the Third Reich from its beginnings through the Final Solution. "As we get further away, the vast majority doesn't know the details" of World War II, Schulberg observes. She was conceived in Berlin during the blockade and born in Paris. Her father continued to make and supervise films in Germany and France through the mid-'50s, before returning to the States and, eventually, signing on as TV newsman David Brinkley's producer in Washington, D.C. Schulberg hasn't been able to unravel the mystery of why Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today didn't screen in the U.S. One theory is that with the Cold War on, the government wanted all eyes on the Russians. It is tempting to see veiled anti-Sem- itism as the real reason, given the State Department's heartless restrictions on the number of European Jews allowed into the U.S. in the 1930s and '40s. In addition, recently declassified docu- ments reveal U.S. efforts to camouflage or expunge the records of high-level Nazi figures — not scientists, mind you — and help them immigrate to this and other countries. Schulberg won't indulge in specula- tion, however. "Regardless of whether there was a specific connection made between that policy of providing some refuge for some Nazis, the bigger-picture point was that the American government was trying to get the American people to focus on the Soviet threat and stop thinking about the Nazis," she says. The Detroit Film Theatre in the Detroit Institute of Arts screens Nuremberg 4 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6-7. $6.50-$7.50. (313) 833-4005; tickets.dia.org . Cannot be combined with another offer. 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