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LEADING Holocaust

education groups are

staging a last-ditch

bid to stop Kate

Winslet winning an

Oscar for playing a

Nazi concentration

camp guard in

The Reader,

Simon Rothstein

reports for

The U.K. Sun

Feb. 20th.

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British actress Kate, 33,

has already won a Bafta and Golden

Globe for the part and is favourite

to walk off with the Best Actress

Academy Award on Sunday.

But experts have denounced the

film as “Holocaust porn”, “sick” and

“a repellent form of revisionism” –

saying that Kate’s portrayal of illiterate

SS guard Hanna Schmitz is overly

sympathetic.

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Hanna was a Nazi involved in the

deaths of hundreds of Jewish women

and children at Auschwitz.

In the movie she conducts a passionate

affair with a much younger man after

the war is over,

insisting that he read to her

before they make love.

Years later, after they’ve split up,

he discovers she was a Nazi and watches

as she stands trial for war crimes –

accepting a longer prison sentence

rather than admit she can’t read.

Mark Weitzman, head of Jewish human

rights and Holocaust teaching organization

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre,

has slammed the film for its

“revisionism”.

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He said:

“Essentially it takes a woman who

serves in, is responsible for,

is complicit in, you pick the words,

in the deaths of at least 300 Jews –

and her big secret shame is

that she’s illiterate.”

Trudy Gold, the chief executive of

the London Jewish Cultural Centre,

told the Jewish News:

“This is just one of a spate of films

portraying sympathetic Nazis.

“This woman acted monstrously,

there’s no question about that.

“The question is have we gotten to

the point where we have to make

heroines out of Nazis?

“I do find it a bit sick.”

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Ron Rosenbaum – who wrote critically

acclaimed book Explaining Hitler –

started the campaign earlier this month

urging Academy voters not to give

any gongs to

“the worst Holocaust film ever made”.

He said:

“What a heart-warming fable about

the wonders of literacy and its ability

to improve the life of an Auschwitz

mass murderer!

“True, she’s unrepentant for the most

part about allowing those women and

children to burn to death,

although we do see one scene in which

it turns out she’s saved some pennies

in prison that she wants to be given

to the children of the women

she murdered—thanks!

“But most of what we see of her prison

experience is her excitement at her

growing literacy skills.

Get a load of those pages turning!

Reading is fun!”

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