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...journey back to Bucharest 48 years later to visit his mother's grave. Free of the technical gush that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief notes on the art of portraiture, illustrating them with dramatically juxtaposed pictures of famous people, among them Pablo Casals, Adolf Eichmann, Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Hitchcock and Henri Matisse. Perhaps the best is Sean O'Casey, a perfect proof that color film does not always destroy the power and the mood of a portrait...
...Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire manuscript should not be published on the grounds that it is rambling, repetitive and stuffed with what he calls the typical Nazi "jargon of violence." Besides, adds Israel's former Attorney General, "I felt that Eichmann had ample opportunity to make his defense during the trial, and did not feel that we owed him any other platform...
Nonetheless, the excerpts that Hausner does include contain some interesting tidbits. Although Eichmann, prior to his arrest, had proudly professed his allegiance to Hitler, he warns in his memoir "against following idols, like the parched bones drying up in the desert." The warning was directed to both the next generation-"The youth of the world should unite. The adults failed"-and to women -"Maybe women should be entrusted with the responsibility for the world because they are led by emotion and not by intellect. Maybe they would do better than we did." Eichmann also discloses that he had been ordered...
Hausner gives no credibility to Eichmann's prison denials. "I don't believe him when he says he is not antiSemitic. We have evidence of his own acts. And we have other private remarks of his in which he gives vent to his feeling that he would have been happy if all 11.3 million Jews had been exterminated...
Meanwhile, the exposure of Eichmann's co-workers continues. In Cologne, three former Gestapo agents-one the mayor of a Bavarian town-were convicted of deporting 73,000 French Jews and Communists to Nazi concentration camps. The longest sentence given was for twelve years. During the 18-week trial, which was attended by dozens of angry survivors of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the defendants denied knowing at the time the real purpose of the death camps. They were imprisoned last week while a higher court heard their appeals...