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Stanford prison experiments and the holocaust

Concerning Claude Lanzmann's "The Last of the Unjust," Andrew O'Hehir wrote this: I can understand why French documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann kept his interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein out of  “Shoah,”  Lanzmann’s 1985 magnum opus about the Holocaust. Murmelstein was a one-time Viennese rabbi who spent several years working closely with the notorious Adolf Eichmann and who was the final “Jewish Elder,” or community leader, in the ghetto of Theresienstadt (or Terezin, its Czech name), a faux-benevolent Potemkin village erected by the Nazis for propaganda purposes.    […]   To many people in the Jewish world, his name became identified with the way some leaders of Europe’s Jewish community had capitulated to Nazi domination and collaborated with a campaign of mass extermination. Gershom Scholem, the German-born Jewish philosopher and historian, suggested at one point that Murmelstein should be hanged as a traitor.   […]   Murmelstein ...