Скачать или смотреть Israeli PM receives original plans of Auschwitz, meets Steinmeier

(27 Aug 2009)
1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev, and Kai Dieckmann, chief of Bild newspaper, walking to table and looking at original plans of Auschwitz concentration camp
2. Netanyahu looking at plans, tilt down
3. Various, plans on table
4. Dieckmann, Shalev and Netanyahu (left to right) looking at plans
5. Various close shots, plans on table
6. Netanyahu standing in front of large plan at the wall
7. Netanyahu looking at plans on table
8. Tilt up from plans to Netanyahu's face
9. Netanyahu addressing media
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"There are those who deny that the holocaust happened. Perhaps until this moment we will say, let them come to Berlin. And from tomorrow we will say let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans. These plans for the factory of death. This is a very important, historical document, documents, that will be kept by us."
11. Diekmann and Netanyahu standing in front of the table
12. Various of Netanyahu meeting with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor
STORYLINE:
Architectural plans for the Auschwitz death camp that were discovered in Berlin last year were handed over on Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for display at Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.
Yad Vashem's chairman Avner Shalev was also present at the handover.
The 29 sketches of the death camp built in Nazi-occupied Poland date as far back as 1941.
They include detailed blueprints for living barracks, delousing facilities and crematoria, including gas chambers, and are considered important for understanding the genesis of the Nazi genocide.
The sketches are initialed by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess.
The Axel Springer Verlag, publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, said it purchased the prints after they were allegedly found by someone claiming they had been stashed in a Berlin apartment.
Based on research since they were acquired, however, Bild now believes the documents were probably stored at the Third Reich archive of the East German secret service, the Stasi.
Several other documents from this archive have surfaced after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, it said.
The blueprints' authenticity has been verified by Germany's federal archive.
Addressing media at the handover, Netanyahu said; "There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened....let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death."
Bild editor Kai Diekmann told Netanyahu and Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev that the paper decided to give them to Israel's Holocaust memorial because they wanted to ensure that as many people as possible could see them.
While they are not the only original Auschwitz blueprints that still exist - others were captured by the Soviet Red Army and brought back to Moscow - they will be the first for Israel's Yad Vashem memorial..
Shalev said the sketches will be on display at Yad Vashem beginning January 27, 2010, as part of a special exhibit marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The blueprints include general plans for the original Auschwitz camp and the expansion of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where most of the killings were carried out.
More than 1 (m) million people, mostly Jews, died in the gas chambers or through forced labour, disease or starvation at the camp, which the Nazis built after occupying Poland.

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