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One can pose yet another question, about the 'fashion' of the just. This is  
clearly a fashion, launched by the Americans and the Israelis. One has stepped 
 over to the other side. From now on there are more and more people who saved 
 jews. If there were so may just people to save jews, how then can so many 
jews  have died? Here too one loses all sense of proportion. There were 'just' 
people,  but I won't call them just, I call them people who did their duty. 
Some did it  all the time, some did it time and again, others came halfway doing 
it. It is  not a simple story. 
The thing I reproach Spielberg is, that he shows the holocaust through the  
eyes of a German. Even though it was a German who saved jews, yet this  
completely changes the perspective on History. It is the world in reverse.  Shoah 
disallows many things for people, Shoah is a lean and  pure film. In Shoah there 
is not a single personal story. The jewish  survivors in Shoah are not merely 
survivors, but people who were at the  end of a chain of extermination, and 
who witnessed directly how their people  were murdered. Shoah is a film about 
the dead and not at all about  survival. 
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