> > My impression was that the showers at the death camps were not connected > to water at all; they were for the exclusive use of gassing people. (I > wish I could quote a source, but oh well...) The inclusion of that shower > scene for dramatic purposes undercuts the fact of the death camps, in my > opinion. I assume there were "real" showers in the labor camps, but in > this film, which was not about the labor camps, they only cloud the issue. > > > Marti *** [log in to unmask] *** Film Studies Program > I, too, was appalled by this scene. But then I asked a survivor of Auschwitz and she told me that those who were not killed immdiately were showered and deloused. This she said because the Germans abhored filth. At the same time, I still think the scene left open a place for revisionists to say the gas chambers masking as showers did not exist. Abigail Feder Northwestern University e-mail: [log in to unmask]