Volume 36, Number 16 · October 26, 1989
From Hirohito to Heimat
By Ian Buruma
La Mémoire vaine: du crime contre l'humanité
by Alain Finkielkraut
Gallimard, 125 pp., fr62 (paper)
Hotel Terminus
a film by Marcel Ophuls
From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film
by Anton Kaes
Harvard University Press, 273 pp., $25.00
In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape From the Nazi Past
by Richard J. Evans
Pantheon, 196 pp., $18.95
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German
by Sabine Reichel
Hill and Wang, 214 pp., $17.95
The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials
by Arnold C. Brackman
Morrow, 432 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Hirohito: Behind the Myth
by Edward Behr
Villard, 486 pp., $22.50
The sight of Rabbi Avraham Weiss from New York screaming at Polish nuns who turned an old warehouse outside the main Auschwitz camp into a Carmelite convent would have made my upper-middle-class Jewish grandparents wince: the kind of man who gives Jews a bad name, they would have said. And I am afraid they might have been right. The fanatical demeanor of the rabbi and his six fellow Americans was not made more edifying by the even worse spectacle of Polish workers spraying the protesters with cold water and tearing off their skull caps.
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