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...film critic for DIE WELT, a Conservative German newspaper, objecting to scenes of carousing SS camp guards in Schindler's List
...turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California who had never taken an interest in the Holocaust or the Jews before." Both critics were reflecting the view of Claude Lanzmann...
...organize film material. But this wish to be creative excludes many things. My view is very narrow," she explains, raising her hands in front of her face like the sides of the camera frame. Her vision was acute within that frame but myopic outside it, in the real Welt, where other Germans noticed things were going evil. If blinkered, though, she was not unique among artists in Germany, Japan or the Soviet Union...
Neither Volkswagen nor Lopez would comment on the Opel documents, but Piech lashed back at GM in a more personal way. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Piech implied that Louis Hughes, who heads GM Europe, was waging a vendetta because he lost out to Piech last year in the runoff to be Volkswagen's chairman. Hughes may have the last laugh: if GM makes its charges stick, predicts industry analyst Klaus-Jurgen Meltzner, "either Lopez or Piech would have...
...HOWEVER, IT HAS, GERmany included. Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...