Word: dachau
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...Brandt-who had visited the city in 1960, when he was mayor of West Berlin -donned earphones so that his Israeli companions could point out the sights. Later, he was taken to Yad Vashem, a solemn memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis. Standing near such names as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, spelled out in English and Hebrew on the memorial's floor, Brandt heard the cantor chant: "Let the Lord remember the souls of our brethren ... who were put to death, and who were killed and choked, and who were buried alive." As Brandt wordlessly moved...
...survivor of Dachau. I am a good American. I love this country. But I intend to speak out for my Jewish brothers throughout the world, because if I don't no one else will, and because I may need this kind of help myself...
...speed of progression is his film guides the action slowly from full minute to full minute. In a final sequence, however, De Sica rises almost to the surreal. To the swelling of a chanted exhortation to "Pray for all of us who fell at the hands of murderers in Dachau, Auschwitz and Treblinka...," De Sica leaves the scene of Micol's proud resignation to look one last time at the dome of Ferrara's synagogue, the implied emptiness beneath her tiled roofs, and a rusty padlock on the gate to the garden of the Finzi-Continis. With a camera...
Some listeners, however, have been markedly cool-for example, to Yevtushenko's repeated attempt to equate the American bombing of North Viet Nam and the assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King with the Nazi massacres at Auschwitz, Dachau and Babi Yar. "Children's huts/ Bombed at night/ Burn in your fire/ Just like your Bill of Rights," he declaims, pointing an accusing finger across the footlights. At the Felt Forum many in the audience booed or left the hall. Eugene McCarthy, who had agreed to participate in the recital, flatly refused Yevtushenko's request that...
...concentration camp" at Kennedy Stadium, but people who were said it was pretty brutal. Yet to call it a concentration camp is to evoke Dachau and Auschwitz, but the government is not yet there, and to evoke images as if it were is to cheapen language, to cry "wolf." And the left should let the destruction of sense in language remain with Nixon; let him call fighting a war "ensuring the peace" and an invasion an "incursion" and let us say what we mean so plainly and truthfully that people will know the difference...