LFI Readers’ Gallery - 4/2013 May/June Issue
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Recent pics from a walk around Renville, MN. A small rural town in southwest Minnesota.
Photos from the recent Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ the Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI
Big Brother is scared of you! So they pay politicians big $$$$$ to protect them.
How many pockets are our elected officials really in?
Leica M8.2 + 35 Summillux-M ASPH
I’m guessing there were WAY more then 7!
(via wisconsinforward)
A collection of live music photos taken with my Leica M9.
About the Interview
For several days in late November, 2006, I interviewed Justice Gabriel Bach at his home in Jerusalem in connection with his role as a prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann. The trial took place in Jerusalem 45 years earlier and Justice Bach was the senior prosecutor in the case, second after Attorney General [Gideon Hausner] who was in charge of the prosecution.
Justice Bach, who was later appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court where he served for ten years until he reached mandatory retirement age, had the greatest contact with Eichmann among the three principal prosecutors.
Once Eichmann was abducted in Argentina and brought to Israel, Bach coordinated the investigation and spoke with Eichmann innumerable times prior to the trial. Having been born in Germany and having left Germany at the age of 11, Bach was completely proficient in German and able to converse directly with Eichmann on matters other than those relating directly to the trial. On those matters he spoke through investigators.
This interview was made possible by a grant from Skip Paul, administered by the Mae Temkin Fund at the University of Wisconsin Law School. My thanks to Skip Paul and the Mae Temkin Fund, and Justice Bach and Mrs. Bach for their hospitality and cooperation in making this video.
In addition, my thanks to Dan Carmi of Tel Aviv for his excellent videography in Jerusalem and Michael Sullivan for his outstanding work in editing the interview and putting this on the Internet for all to see.
Thank you,
Frank Tuerkheimer
Professor
University of Wisconsin Law School
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Matthew McConaughey tells Terry Gross about landing the part of Dave Wooderson in Dazed and Confused:
I met the casting director Don Phillips on that film in a bar one night. Top of the Hyatt, Thursday night, with my girlfriend at the time. … [W]e went to that bar because I knew the bartender and he’d give me free drinks and … — he was in film school with me — he goes, ‘The guy at the end of the bar is a producer,’ … [and so] I went down to introduce myself. Four hours later, we’re kicked out of the bar and he says, ‘You ever acted before?’ I said, ‘Man, I was in a Miller Light commercial for about ummm that long,’ and he goes, ‘Well, you might be right for this role. Come to this address tomorrow morning, 9 o’clock.’ … And I went down there six hours later and there was a script with a handwritten note on top of it and it had this character’s name was Wooderson. He had a few great, great lines. … The one that sent me off and I was just like, ‘Who is this guy?’ is when they’re out front of the billiards joint and the ladies are walking by. Wooderson’s checking them out … and Wooderson’s like, ‘That’s what I like about those high school girls, man, I get older, but they stay the same age.’ That was the piece for Wooderson that I was like, ‘That’s not a line that’s his being. That’s his philosophy. He has it figured out. He’s not commentating.’”
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Matthew McConaughey tells Terry Gross about landing the part of Dave Wooderson in Dazed and Confused:
I met the casting director Don Phillips on that film in a bar one night. Top of the Hyatt, Thursday night, with my girlfriend at the time. … [W]e went to that bar because I knew the bartender and he’d give me free drinks and … — he was in film school with me — he goes, ‘The guy at the end of the bar is a producer,’ … [and so] I went down to introduce myself. Four hours later, we’re kicked out of the bar and he says, ‘You ever acted before?’ I said, ‘Man, I was in a Miller Light commercial for about ummm that long,’ and he goes, ‘Well, you might be right for this role. Come to this address tomorrow morning, 9 o’clock.’ … And I went down there six hours later and there was a script with a handwritten note on top of it and it had this character’s name was Wooderson. He had a few great, great lines. … The one that sent me off and I was just like, ‘Who is this guy?’ is when they’re out front of the billiards joint and the ladies are walking by. Wooderson’s checking them out … and Wooderson’s like, ‘That’s what I like about those high school girls, man, I get older, but they stay the same age.’ That was the piece for Wooderson that I was like, ‘That’s not a line that’s his being. That’s his philosophy. He has it figured out. He’s not commentating.’”
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Back-up Camera [Leica M8.2] on Flickr.
Ron Johnson voted against common sense gun legislation.
Call him: 202-224-5323
Followers in other states: you can find contact information for your Senator here. As President Obama said, “ you need to let your representatives in Congress know that you are disappointed, and that if they don’t act this time, you will remember come election time.”
Part Four: Photographs and Stories - Eichmann Prosecutor Interview
A short narrative and view of photographs of the persons involved in the trial.
These photographs evoke one of the more amazing stories of the Holocaust: a photograph of Bach, taken during the trial, triggers the amazing saga of the only person locked in the Auschwitz gas chamber who lived to tell about it.
Part Three: The Trial and Sentence - Eichmann Prosecutor Interview
Rebutting the arguments of Dr. Servatius, Eichmann´s very capable trial counsel, that the court in Israel had no jurisdiction over Eichmann because:
1. Eichmann was charged with violations of the laws of the State of Israel which was not in existence at the time of the alleged offenses;
2. Since the principal charge against Eichmann was crimes against the Jewish people, an Israeli court could not try him fairly;
3. The laws Eichmann was charged with violating were not in existence at the time of the alleged offenses, contravening fundamental principles against ex post facto laws.
4. Eichmann´s abduction from Argentina was itself against international law.
The infamous Wannsee Conference: Eichmann explains how this conference was called several months after the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was implemented to bring the entire German bureaucracy on board, the fear that it would be difficult to do so, and the elation when it turned out that anticipated opposition never materialized. Eichmann and his superior, Heydrich, celebrated how smoothly the conference went.
Eichmann´s revelation that once it was clear that Germany would lose the war, he would win his own war against the Jews.
How Eichmann overrode the request of Germany´s ally Italy to spare the life of a Jewish woman married to a deceased Italian army officer as well as the request of Marshal Petain the collaborationist French leader, who asked that a Jewish army officer and recipient of the Croix de Guerre, France´s highest military award, be spared.
Eichmann´s irritation, expressed to the German foreign ministry, that the deportation of Danish Jews did not proceed effectively and that Sweden was complicit in saving about half of Norway´s Jews.
Evidence that Eichmann, who claimed just to be following orders,
1. Overruled the Regent of Hungary to insure the deportation of a trainload of Hungarian Jew
2. Disregarded the directions of the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, for which he was reprimanded, when those directions would have spared Jewish live
3. Tried to frustrate the directive of another superior, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, with respect to killing captured Jewish parachutists
4. On one occasion, even undermined an agreement which Hitler had reached with the Hungarian Regent which would have saved 8,700 Jewish Hungarian families
Eichmann´s perfidious role in arranging for [postcards to be sent from Auschwitz] to still un-deported family members, encouraging them to hurry to Auschwitz.
Eichmann´s bizarre reaction when first seeing a film taken at the liberation of the concentration camps.
Gabriel Bach´s comments on [Hannah Arendt]´s coverage of the trial
What to do after the Israeli Supreme Court denies Eichmann´s appeal. Wait or execute?
Part Two: The Investigative Stage - Eichmann Prosecutor Interview
How Eichmann fortified the commandant of Auschwitz when he felt a weakness at the knees in killing children.
How Eichmann was manipulated into acknowledging his awareness that his deputy, acting on his behalf, was pivotal in arranging for lethal Zyklon B gas to be brought to Auschwitz.
Why any signs of remorse by Eichmann had to be taken with a huge grain of salt in light of an interview Eichmann had given while living in Argentina a few years earlier.
How Eichmann overrode a General of the German Army who unsuccessfully wanted to spare the life of one Jewish scientist, a radar expert of great value to the German Army.
The poignant story of how, when trying to authenticate documents in preparation for trial, the prosecution team discovered that one of their own had survived Auschwitz.
How Eichmann revealed that once it was clear that Germany would lose the war, he was going to win his own war against the Jews.
There is also the rarely told story of Eichmann´s shocking psychological profile.
