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Lanzmann interviews Dr. Franz Grassler, former Nazi and deputy director of the Warsaw ghetto. He films the scene from outside Grassler's home, without his subject's knowledge...
...repeat: extermination did not take place in the ghetto, not at first. Only with the evacuations...
...evacuations to Treblinka. The ghetto could have been wiped out with weapons, as was finally done after the rebellion. After I'd left. But at the start... Mr. Lanzmann, this is getting us nowhere. We're reaching no new conclusions...
...many blacks to gain jobs and admission to schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...
Squash is viewed in quite differently in foreign countries, Fish says. First, squash is a game for the masses abroad, not just for the upper-middle classes as it is in America. According to Fish, foreign governments view squash as a "way to bring kids out of the ghetto." Public indoor courts abound, and are regularly used by everyone...