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...police officer who arrested Anne Frank, for example. Others needed updating. In The Murderers Among Us, Wiesenthal located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues to suspect that he is still alive...
With a philosophy that he dubs "kick them when they're up," Safire has made enemies. The West German government was enraged by his early 1989 columns that helped reveal that nation's complicity in the construction of a Libyan poison-gas factory, which Safire dubbed "Auschwitz in the sand." Nancy Reagan in her autobiography, My Turn, denounces various Safire columns as "heartless and dumb" and "vicious and unbelievable...
Erich Honecker's picture flashes on the screen. "We knew our leaders were old and stupid and reactionary -- but not this. It's like people living next to Auschwitz who said they didn't know. If you had told me about this a couple of months ago, I'd say it was American propaganda. It's as if you were suddenly told that your grandmother was a thief, your mother was a whore, your father was a drug dealer...
...satanic event, the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. What is unusual is that in this holiday season, no fewer than three Hollywood films deal with the Holocaust. Triumph of the Spirit tells the true tale of a Greek-Jewish boxer, Salamo Arouch, who literally fights for his life at Auschwitz. Music Box fictionalizes the 1988 trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant to the U.S. who was convicted of war crimes. And Enemies, a Love Story adapts Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1966 novel about Holocaust survivors sorting out their guilt and their passions in postwar New York City. Still...
Triumph of the Spirit might be expected to transcend this label, if only because of one line in the movie's final credits: "Filmed on location at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps." Co-producer Arnold Kopelson won ! permission from Polish authorities to use the huge camps (now museums) as the setting for his story. How chilling it must have been for the actors and especially the extras -- many of them Auschwitz survivors -- to see the place restored as if in full working order...