"LIBERATORS" UNDER FIRE


( A documentary wounded by friendly fire )


"Liberators:Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II"





Holocaust and racist revisionism join in the hysterical media assault on LIBERATORS. Truth proves to be the first casualty in the revisionist war that was declared by critics of the WWII documentary film on Black soldiers. The attacks have consigned the film to an historical purgatory.

"LIBERATORS" UNDER FIRE


Research and Commentary by Asa Gordon

SELECTED ARTICLES : LIBERATORS - SURVIVORS

  • THE NEW YORK TIMES - MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1985
    "I Was Liberated at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945"
    Benjamen Bender

  • THE DENVER POST - SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1993
    Black troops first to reach death camp
    By Jeff Bradley

  • THE WASHINGTON POST - SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1995
    Escape From Dachau: My Own, Private V-E Day
    For Prisoner B-1317, Salvation Was a U.S. Army Tank
    By Samuel Pisar

  • NEW YORK NEWSDAY - OCTOBER 22, 1992
    Black Liberators Of the Holocaust

  • THE JEWISH WEEK - NOVEMBER 6-12, 1992
    Black soldiers gave the gift of life
    By PAUL KRESH

  • THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS - NOVEMBER 14, 1992
    PBS`documentary, 'Liberators,' portrays history of Blacks in WWII
    By CHARLES BAILLOU
    WASHINGTON POST - SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1994
    'Liberators' Worth Seeing-Truths About Blacks, Jews in Another War
    Courtland Milloy

    Courtland Milloy's Washington Post article on Asa Gordon's wartime fight for the public to continue to see the documentary "Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II"
    LIES OF OUR TIMES -- May 1993

    Black Soldiers And the Death Camps
    Daniel Allentuck
    (One of the three co-writers of Liberators.) - Reactions of racist revisionism.
    LETTERS to THE EDITOR:
    THE NATION -- FEB. 22, 1993
    Another Military Liberation
    Elizabeth Pochada

    A critical critique of Jeffrey Goldberg's controversial report in the February 8 New Republic on "Liberators".

    WNET-13 Un-released Internal Review of "Libertors"--FEB.8+(?)

    Filmmakers and WNET never released internal review of "Liberators".

    The Filmmakers' Response to Kenneth Stern's report
    to the American Jewish Committee     - March 5, 1993
    William Miles and Nina Rosenblum

    NINA ROSENBLUMS' { STATEMENT }
    ATLANTA DAILY WORLD:
    Sun., Mar. 26,1995 ; Tue., Mar. 28,1995 ; Thurs-Fri., Mar. 30-31,1995
    William A. Scott, III and the Holocaust:
    The Encounter of African American Liberators and Jewish Survivors at Buchenwald
     Asa Gordon

    This is a reprint of an article by Asa Gordon published by the Atlanta Daily World argumented with the full compliment of documents discovered at the US National Archives donated to the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History.
    ATLANTA DAILY WORLD -- Thursday-Friday, April 11-12, 1996

    "The Lesson of Buchenwald- A Death Camp of the Holocaust"
    Asa Gordon

    Holocaust Memorial Lecture

    Alex Gross a Holocaust survivor of the Buchenwald death camp in World War II, Dr, Leon Bass one of the camp's African American liberators and Asa Gordon, executive director and founder of the Douglass Institute of Government, Washington, D.C. were the honored speakers in a special memorial program on April 11th, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Rubenstein Theater on behalf of the museum's Washington D.C. area school project entitled, "Bringing the Lessons Home: Holocaust Education for the Community." See Gordon's remarks on this occasion in this edition of the Atlanta Daily World.

    World War II Veteran Remembers the Horror of the Holocaust
    William A. Scott, III

    In 1991 "W. A.", as he was known to family and friends, was honored for his "valiant service" with the Allied Forces in Liberating the Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and was appointed by President George Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

    In the weeks of April and May of 1945, Allied soldiers and reporters entered the Nazi Concentration Camps of WWII and exposed the unimaginable horrors of the holocaust. African-American soldiers were among the first witnesses to the holocaust legacy.

    "The scenes were a double wound for, appalling in their own right, they also confirmed beyond words what two World Wars had already suggested - that Western civilization, so satisfied with itself as the flower of human evolution, might still use its vaunted minds and machines to serve the darkest and most primitive impulses."

    "Inside The Vicious Heart"
    ( Americans and The Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps )
    by Robert H. Abzug

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