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Filename: E1-ISSUE-AJCD0508-3Star created: May 7 2005 Username: SPEED2 AJCD0508-3STR Sunday, May 08, 2005 ISSUE 1 3STR 1 1 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 3STR Cyan Magenta Yellow Black SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2005 Jim Wooten says time for the people of Georgia to elect their statewide judges. E6 The key to good mothers is educated girls. An editorial on creating opportunity. INSIDE TODAY ajc THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CHECK FOR BREAKING NEWS UPDATES AT AJC.COM jttvf Motherhood RUNAWAY Story, E3Cynthia column, E6 By RICHARD HALICKS Vivien Spitz tried to keep the horror sealed off for nearly 40 years. The cavernous courtroom in Nuremberg.

The camp survivors describing the grotesque procedures performed on them by Nazi doctors. The piercing stare and mocking arrogance of Adolf personal physician, Karl Brandt, as he sat in the prisoners dock a few yards away. Spitz spent 19 months as a civilian court reporter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, including nearly a full year on known as the Medical Case. In that 1946-47 proceeding, 20 physicians and three assistants were tried for almost unimaginable crimes. The doctors created deep burns on arms to simulate exposure to a phosphorus bomb; forced prisoners to live on nothing but seawater until many went mad; injected malaria and typhus into healthy men and women; sterilized Jews, Gypsies and others by burning their genitals with X- rays; severed legs and arms for use in transplantation experiments; killed dozens of Jews to obtain a suitable number of skeletons for display at a university museum.

wrote shorthand on a notebook, and my tears I would have tears coming out my eyes, falling down on my ink, smearing the says Spitz, who was 22 when the Medical Case began. She left the weary, bombed- out city of Nuremberg and been home long in Detroit before the recurring nightmares began. She was trying to lead a group of children out of a death camp. The visions haunted her sleep for three years, and she decided that the only way to stay sane was to stuff the Medical Case far into the back of her head, never to think about it or speak of it. More than four decades later Spitz was living in suburban Denver when a local teacher made news by telling her students that the Holocaust was really the And the longtime seals inside head broke open.

In outrage over Holocaust denials, she created a lecture for high school and middle school students, some of whom had never heard of Hitler, and, in her 70s, became more and more active in telling the story of the Nuremberg trials. At 80, she would publish the book From recounting what she had seen and recorded in 1946 and 1947. The publication was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau (April 29) and the national Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was Thursday. The Journal-Constitution interviewed Spitz last week by phone at her home in Aurora, Colo. On page E4 is an edited transcript of that conversation.

United State Holocaust Memorial Museum Defendants sit in the dock during the Medical Case phase of the Nuremberg war crimes trials. were proud of what they were said Vivien Spitz, a court reporter who wrote a book about the case. were building the thousand-year Super Reich of pure-blooded Aryans, and they were going to get rid of all these subcultures: the Jews, the Gypsies, the Vivien Spitz (right) spent 19 months as a civilian court reporter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. After many years of shutting the horrors out of her consciousness, this year she published from recounting what she had seen and recorded in 1946 and 1947. VIVIEN SPITZ, court reporter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials Iraqi National Guardsman Sgt.

Kamel Hamza al-Shibli suffered the in the streets while the new Iraqi government bickered over whom to appoint as his boss to head the defense ministry. The new, but still incomplete, government was installed Tuesday, about three months after the Jan. 30 national parliamentary elections. But the celebration of that day, when about 8 million Iraqis voted despite insurgent threats, has given way to weeks of coalition haggling and escalating violence. Shibli was a victim last week of one of the blasts, a bomb that hit his troop carrier and killed several of his colleagues.

The bombings of the past 10 days up to 11 in a single day killed more than 270 Iraqis, according to the Associated Press. The explosives were detonated inside cars, hidden in the road or strapped on suicide bombers. They blew up in a market, a shrine, a funeral tent, the gates of military recruiting centers and on streets near Iraqi and U.S. forces. Recovering Friday in a bed at Yarmouk Hospital, Shibli, 35, was barely able to sit up for more than a few minutes.

Antiseptic cream was slathered over his scalp, still raw red from burns. He had a shrapnel wound behind his ear and his right hand was bandaged. His eyes were reduced to slits by the swelling in his face and charred skin crusted on his forearms. Rocking slightly in faded gray pajamas, he hear well, but he could talk. country is he said, vowing to overcome the bombings and his wounds.

must After a bloody week across Iraq, it is to tell whether the total number of bombings has increased. U.S. reported 54 in just two weeks in April during a relative lull. The Army did not respond to requests for updated for later April and early May. But it is clear to Iraqis that elections and a new government are not enough to bring stability.

American sometimes refer to the hoped-for here that will ensure democracy and bring peace. But most Iraqis see the future as a bloody, incremental KARIM KADIM AP Iraqi police inspect the scene Monday after a car bomb exploded next to a police convoy in Zayonah district, killing two civilians and injuring six. bWhho aWfbem Larry Kaplow covers Iraq for Cox Newspapers. He is based in Baghdad. Please see IRAQ, E3.