A nation searches its soul
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a notorious workaholic, took time off from preparing for the current budget debate to watch the show. So did Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl. In all, an estimated 14 million West Germans, plus 3 million people in areas of East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried debates...
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