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...questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There was always a fire in the pit. With rubbish, paper and gasoline, people burn very well." Auschwitz Survivor Rudolf Vrba manages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horror and the Pity SHOAH | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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