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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1979 Peace Lutheran Church A&M Consolidated H.S. Cafeteria (F.M. 2818-enter Welch St. side) 9:30 Fellowship and Study 10:45 Worship for all ‘Holocaust’ Television show raises questions among Germans Informal fellowship, variety in music and worship: Classes for young adults & stu dents: opportunities to become involved in ministry: Not far from the apartments in the S.W. Parkway area. Join us this week. United Press International BONN, West Germany — West Germans, shocked and shamed by “Holocaust,” the American TV series on the Nazi extermination of Jews, asked survivors of the death camps: “Was it really that bad?” “It was worse, one member of a panel of survivors and experts told callers following the second install ment of the four-part series Tuesday. “It was worse than you can even imagine. The literary imagination is not competent to paint the true hor rors of the Nazi crimes. ” Viewers made so many calls they could not be handled, a network spokesman said. They asked, “Why did we not know about this at the time?” “Did we know and refuse to admit it?” “Why didn’t we want to know what the Nazis were doing to the Jews?” “Were the murderers only the SS men or ordinary soldiers, too?” “Holocaust” also has sparked the most lively, frank and open discus sion they have ever had about the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jews. “Of course we knew what was happening,” one caller said. “Did we not as early as 1940 tell jokes about ‘Moses Soap and Sarah soap?’ Did not the children sing a song Put the Jews Against the Wall? ” On Monday night, when the first installment of the four-part series was shown 5,200 persons phoned television stations throughout West Germany. Tuesday night, the Cologne sta tion that paid $543,000 for the Ger man rights to the series alone re ceived 3,600 calls. The American television series, which won six Emmy awards last year, is forcing Germans to face up to their past in a way they never did before. “Everybody knew something,” said Professor Eugen Kogon, an ex pert on the Nazi era and panel member. “But they shoved the thought about it aside. They were silent. There were not many active anti-Semites. There was a lot of 4 vidual help. Thousands of Jews »i saved by people who hid therad But what is that compared to tlieij lions who were exterminated? or “At first people said, 'It do« concern me. Why the hiss? I came the war and they said Don’ti have enough to worry about u selves?’ And with the war they! missed it all as Allied propagani the World War I type. Uniter FORT vv Jnd of soui Texas Chris Ration KTC It’s like an e | ea d of the : tenors are d the jitterbug w w tn« ia« vw w w mi w* vw w« w« tm tm tn«£ Change FAT FEVER into c, y e* LOSE 17-30 lbs. in just 6 weeks, at the AGGIE DIAMOND SPECIAL!!! 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He said the latest revelationi Jonestown may obscure theli l&yond any problem of millions of federal di| w ould recei “financing virtual hell-holes »1 children are beaten, starved sexually abused. ” Cranston said his subcomiii on child and human develop have told the panel “stories sound like Charles Dickens’s about the horrors of street urclii 19th-century London slums. He said he had evidence “some institutions for handica abandoned or delinquent chi are apparently' providing living conditions for childreniij turn for millions of dollars in support.” “We have heard reports ofi Byhe two r dren being strung up by thei ■ SO phy : play and legs in iron cages, held in sol «[ ers c ] ur j r confinement in leg irons andk Ri evever p ( cuffs, tear gassed and placellthev want. T punishment, in dormitories i ^pj a j ns SOJ older inmates who sexually all L , y d uc 1< them,” Cranston said. 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