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Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a notorious workaholic, 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...
Since its broadcast by NBC in the U S nine months ago, Holocaust has been shown in eleven countries, including Israel, Britain and Japan. But the program posed a ticklish dilemma for television executives of publicly financed television stations in West Germany, where many people would rather bury the Nazi past Both ARD and ZDF, the two national networks, declined to purchase the show They cited reports from West German correspondents in the U.S. that Holocaust which focuses on the suffering of a Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually...
From the beginning, broadcasters feared that the 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...
...personally have been affected by (the Holocaust)," Ruth Bork, president of One Generation After, said yesterday. "Our parents in many cases have been negatively physically affected by their experiences in the war years," she added...
...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...