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...took time off from preparing for the current budget debate to watch the show. So did Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl. In all, an estimated 14 million West Germans, plus 3 million people in areas of East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried debates...
...series would be viewed as either too banal to be truly educational, or too anti-German to be effective. To counterbalance some of Holocaust's technical errors, ARD screened before the first installment a 90-minute documentary called Endlösung (final solution), using actual films of Hitler's rise and the grim reality of the death camps Stations broadcasting Holocaust set up telephone lines over which viewers could call in to panels of experts and survivors of Nazi persecution...
...people were appalled to be reminded that many of their elders had not protested the slaughter. "How and why could this sort of thing happen?" asked one horrified young viewer. "Where were the churches? Why did they not protest? Why was there no resistance?" Those who had lived through Hitler's reign reproached themselves. Said a Frankfurt book salesman: "I'm forever ashamed of my generation. How could we allow a beast like Hitler to come to power...
...meeting coincided with the International Holocaust Public Education and Social Action Day, held to recognize the 16th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's election as chancellor of Germany and the liberation by Allied troops of the Auschwitz concentration camp...
Irving Paul ("Swifty") Lazar, literary agent, when asked if he had any compunction about handling Richard Nixon's book: "No. Let us say a doctor is called in to save Hitler. Do you think he should save his life...