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70th anniversary of the victory of World War II, also It is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the launch of various Holocaust-themed movies is just the right time. The Jewish lady who escaped from Nazi house arrest in "The Woman in Gold" said: "People are forgetful." In 1961, the group of people who used hidden cameras to broadcast the entire trial of the Nazi high-ranking official Adolf Eichmann on global television not only told the world at that time , how the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, made the voices of the surviving Jews heard by the world, and left important video data for the forgetful and neglected future generations to watch. These people deserve to be remembered.
Eichmann is accused of being responsible for the Holocaust 'Final Plan', TV producer Milton Franzmann and director Leo Hurwitz travel to Israel with slightly different purposes to broadcast the trial, Milton He is a shrewd and rational professional TV personality who cares about ratings. Leo is a typical intellectual artist, so Milton emphasized the need to capture the dramatic moment when the witness fainted in the trial, and firmly believed in the absolute justice of the broadcast trial. Then he stared at Eichmann, who had been indifferently watching the survivors expose the Nazi atrocities, trying to dig out a trace of humanity from him, thinking and guiding the world to think: "What makes an ordinary person become a person that can make hundreds of thousands of people think? Whoever sent their children to die. Under certain circumstances, anyone could act like a fascist.” Although the duo and their film crew often argued, they both faced a shared struggle to get a judge’s permission to shoot, personnel Due to political changes and other hot news grabbing TV time, Milton was even nearly assassinated by neo-Nazis.
Milton believed that Eichmann, who participated in the mass shooting of the Nazi SS elite, could endure the most brutal bloodshed. It was also impossible to show weakness in the face of the Jews he despised. As mentioned above, Leo believes that fascism will not become extinct. As long as people stop thinking, commit themselves to the group system, and have a sense of racial superiority, even the new Jewish state of Israel may breed fascism, and Eichmann will no longer be special. become ordinary people. But Eichmann remains unmoved by the documentary footage of the Jewish massacre, and Leo has to accept in frustration that Eichmann may really be dehumanizing. It is worth noting that Leo did not experience the abominable concentration camp life like Milton and the collapsed photographer, and the experience necessarily affects people's position on the issue. Records are achievements, and he left the truth to the world, like Claude Lanzmann who later created the documentary Havoc.
Three and a half stars
: Leo stood in front of the glass cage used to detain Eichmann. The cage was empty, but he saw the shadow of himself and Eichmann overlapped. This clip intuitively shows Leo's fascism. view. By seeing different ideas clash, we may gain new insights into Arendt's theory of "banal evil".
You can also watch: "Havoc," "Hannah Arendt," "The Reader"
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