Word: holocaust
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...antiSemitic. Eichmann had made that claim somewhat obliquely in court and more directly in a lengthy "confession" to a German journalist that was published by LIFE in 1960. He repeated that disavowal in a little-known, long suppressed personal memoir that is now coming to light. Declared Eichmann: "The Holocaust was the greatest crime in history. I was never taken in by the mysticism of Nazi ideology. My views never matched the official line. I could never identify with the objectives of national socialism. I always had doubts...
...eight corpses litter the stage. Hans Tobeason's flaming lights are freed at last from the black drapes of deception, blinding the audience further. Edgar, Kent and Albany blink unbelievingly at the holocaust at their feet. We wait for a blackout and a curtain...
...through direct rationing by the government or indirect conservation in the marketplace, our next president must be prepared to remove the fetters oil imports place on our domestic and foreign policies. Through conservation, he can do so with less loss of life, less paranoia, and less danger of nuclear holocaust than through a self-destructive call to the Cold War colors...
Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...
Fear succeeds where the Germans do not. One of the myths of battle is that the tempered veteran loses his fear. In Mowat's case, the "Worm That Never Dies" grows stronger with each new holocaust. The change can be read in his progressive perceptions of death. An early casualty seems almost comic, "marching blindly to Valhalla" off a landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound...