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...better than Russia' or 'We all share in Germany's guilt.' The flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet...
...physicians and other civilians have been convicted of war crimes in German courts. The Germans have just tracked down Treblinka Camp Commander Franz Stangl, who has been extradited from Brazil. They still have hopes of finding Josef Mengele, the camp doctor accused of experimenting on thousands of people at Auschwitz, and the biggest quarry of all, Hitler Deputy Martin Bormann. Yet the men who knowingly gave many of Hitler's acts their legal veneer, the Nazi judges, have escaped prosecution, claiming that they were simply upholding the laws, no matter how inhumane. Last week, in a case that could...
There is a horrifying sameness to books about Nazi concentration camps. To have read once about Auschwitz or Belsen or Dachau ought to be enough for anyone who does not want to hide from facts. Yet each successive volume uncovers new variations on the theme of human bestiality. This fictionalized account is unusual in that it begins with the agonized if rather naive question of why the Jewish victims of the Nazis did not try to fight against their doom. It ends up-almost, it sometimes seems, against the author's intent-as an account of triumph amidst total...
Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat...
...INVESTIGATION (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Peter Weiss's 1966 Broadway play revolving around the Frankfurt trials of Nazis accused of committing atrocities at Auschwitz. With the original Broadway cast, including Russell Baker, Leslie Barrett, Peter Brandon. To be repeated Sunday, April...