they.' writes DAVID BEER.
The other side of the story is the lies of present-day Nazis and their allies, who revelling in the glorious past of the Third Reich find it expodient to question the truth the acoounts of Nazi atrocities.
The true story of fascisms in power seems to have been lost on those in Britain and even Germany who are beginning to TE DISCO ISSUE HIVERS and tactics which brought Hitler's National Socialists to power. A popular version of the major TV networks throughou Iroadcan the world Etimey strong weak on historical fact, positively misleoding in some of its central contentions. Yet, American dards - recally American ones harrowing account and devanas mack on Hu record Many critics have observed Fat because if focuses on the that the programme was fate of the Jews, What about the socialists, trade unionists, sypsies, homosexuals others, they ask? Dida't the also suffer under the Nazis?
Of course they did, Holocaust acknowledges this, albeit fleetingly. But its main concern was to explain why one third of the world's Jewish Cauchtered and how the Jews reacted to This has its merits, but there is a strong implication in the programme that the Nazis' rise A WOMAN interviewed on a local radio station about I mean, they didn't give the other point of view, did than half a century, the memory of one of the most terrible crimes in history is becoming distinctly vague, power and popularity can be explained by while anti-Semitism. It accepts the Zionist myth that tism is somehow non-Jewish societies nobilise bostility Jews has discovered the key lo power.
This misconception is combined with a reluctance accept that Jewish resistance to Nazism rectived Tram Gentiles. While it is true for example, that the bulk o the Polish and comrades, Holocaust ignores the fact that the closest cooperation which developed was and between the Communist rexance and fellow Communists Indeed, the instances Jewish resistance depicted In He got a Mate any die progranune the Lodz Ghetto uprising so it appears, learn the folly of their non-Zionist past.
Yet mention that the leadership of and the Jewish fighters came not only from the Zionist groups mainly the left wing ones and also from the Bund Jewish socialistss, the communists and others.
the armed variety the resistance of those who, the most circumscances, found ways of observing Jewish ritual. Others, like Emmanual Ringelhaum, MEDULL Berts Weiss Rosemary Harris) and ber hushand Josef (Fritz Weavert after their arrival in Auschwitz Ringelbaum kept a metica lous mary and Crossman. a great risk, took photographs of all aspects of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Weiss, like his real-life counterparts. made dais of life in the concentration Others burying bodies committed the Dumbers tattooed on the victims" armsto memory and wrote them down, record in the ground. None of subsequent this, however, makes for good television. within days of the screening anti-Semi- of Holocaust in the United inherent ir earlier this and that Israel lobhy was despatching letters to influential people in Washinglon demonstrates Israel's nood and desire for socurity; an attempt to make propaganda out of the to greate a the stupidity of programme assistance ant Zionists who dismiss the sufferings of European Jewry as a factor in the current Middle Ukrainian East conflict.
The shadow of the holocaust i very real for many sraelis and other Jews and friends, They recall that This insuedy octurted desins 3 Jewish background of almost univerof strongly in the programme — and conclude that sac Jews can show only rely on themselves for their own survival.
The Palestinians, who have suffered the destruction of the Tal al Zaatar refugee camp fails to secution seeming indifference of the rest of the world to their fate, might be forgiven for dismissing the - but Jewish preoccupation with the holocaust as parancia or cheap propaganda, The fact is that Nazi crimes There was against the Jews are a factor in the conflict between Israel and difficult the Palestinians, and it is too glib and uncoonsarily offenreligious sive to equale Israeli behaviour that of Gross- CEROSIS firmly on the side of Zionist viewsabout the future of world Jewry. The hero is soen heading tragedy of the Jewiah people is Jews are still being killed creation of an exclusive Jewish state has not security et the Even borders stretching from Damascus to the Suez Canal will not do thal Fi a terrible irony that Teaders have Rodi Weiss (Joseph Bottoms) and Helena Slomova (Tovah Feldshuh) witness destruction of Kles
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her reactions to the American television series Holocaust" said: '1 thought that it was a bit one-sided.
This extraordinary comment on a fictionalised account of the decimation of European Jewry gives an indication of why the programme was made. In less