jimc@haddock.UUCP (05/13/85)
I concur with the author of this base note -- I have never seen television like what was shown on *Frontline* last week. I thought the images from Bergen-Belsen and others made the films we see of the starving in Ethiopia seem like a Walt Disney movie. What most troubled me was the appearance of the bodies -- starvation and disease had reduced what once was a human being into this stiff, rickety manequin which did not seem at all human. I imagine those who regularly were around the bodies had to develop a distance from the situation to avoid hysteria, and perhaps they began to think of the bodies as merely objects and not former humans. However, it was impossible for me to gain such distance in watching this hour-long documentary, which is fine by me. The program was mortifyingly horrible; it succeeded in convincing me further that Reagan made the worst mistake of his political career in going to that German military cemetery. Jim Campbell ..!harvard!ima!haddock!jimc