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...between tolerable and entertaining. What's troubling, though, is that Dussander is a former S.S. officer, and this cat in an oven acts as an obvious metaphor for the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, the reference here being a blatant and almost nauseating one to Nazi gas chambers. If far more carefully done, a movie could perhaps have succeeded in making people understand the horrors of the Holocaust in visceral terms, for it is certainly a shockingly emotional event that is all too easily intellectualized into statistics and stock phrases. Apt Pupil, however, doesn't succeed...
...this movie, and so for its audience. The ethics of making Dussander the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. Perhaps if he were a man at once horrified at what he did and yet still partly indoctrinated into Nazi ways, the character would be interesting, but he is not. He rather remembers and repeats his deeds with a relish...
...policies of this nation or any other. A variety of factors contribute, including history, politics, demographics and yes, economics. I could go on and on criticizing this rather narrow view of world affairs, hoping that others might agree, but I think that once you compared the United States to Nazi Germany, you scuttled your own ship. DANIEL B. KURZ Roxbury...
...said, most folks in Wyoming may not like homosexuality, but they are neither fanatics nor fools, and they tend not to interfere in other people's personal business. Now not every anti-Semite was a Nazi, either; but without the thousand small literary and social cuts inflicted by anti-Semitism, Hitler's wave of extermination against the Jews of Europe could not have been successful. Dehumanize people enough, and someone will take up the challenge and kill them. It really does happen that...
...unfit." In 1932, the magazine outlined Sanger's "Plan for Peace," which called for coerced sterilization, mandatory segregation and rehabilitative concentration camps for all "dysgenic stocks." In 1933, the magazine even published an article by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene...