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Like Historian Raul Hilberg, who bears eloquent witness in Shoah, Lanzmann did not begin his mammoth project by "asking the big questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There...
...between Russian and English as he spun his tale of being "forcibly abducted" in Rome by American agents, drugged and flown to the U.S. against his will. For "three horrible months" he was held at a safe house in Fredericksburg, Va., Yurchenko claimed, taking apparent glee at revealing its exact location and details. Only on Nov. 2, when his CIA "torturers" let down their guard, so he said, was he able to escape...
...Yale, Reynolds said that about 500 people attended Wednesday’s meeting, though GESO also would not release exact figures for the vote. Only graduate students in the humanities and social sciences were allowed to vote in the secret ballot...
...anyway, they’re typically only yelled at other Ivy League schools like Cornell and Yale, all guilty of the exact same crime at one point or another...
Though the exact additional figure is unclear, some estimated that it could cost more than $1 million dollars...