This article tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, Mr. Fried, who dedicated his life to sharing his experiences and combating Holocaust denial. Despite his efforts and the work of other survivors, a hateful individual named Gerhard Lauck continues to spread Nazi ideology and deny the Holocaust in Nebraska.
The media makes judgement calls every day about what's news and what's out of bounds, writes contributing columnist John McCaa.. Our encounter years ago was brief, but invaluable. Mr. Fried survived the Holocaust ; the number A-5053 brutally gouged into his arm as a teen prisoner at Auschwitz. Nevertheless, he was a lucky one. He escaped during a death march to another camp. He hid for three months in the mountains. Russian soldiers helped him to safety.
At its widest point east to west, Nebraska is about 500 miles across. It’s about 200 miles north to south. In all that space you will find less than a quarter of the number of people who call Dallas-Fort Worth home. With so few residents, the state’s strangest characters cannot hide from public notice for long. Some, like Gerhard Lauck of Lincoln, do not even try.Lauck still preaches the same hate and Nazism he did then.
I never met him when I lived there, but back then, a fellow reporter named Mike McKnight did an extensive interview with him. That interview was shelved because of Lauck’s antisemitic statements. In the early 1980s, as a young reporter and weekend news anchor, I happened to come across it.At the time, I was always looking for topics for our Saturday evening newscast on which we could spend more than the typical 90 seconds that a standard television news story would get.
Each minute the story ran while Murph watched it, I could feel my boss’ tension grow. As it ended, Murph agreed Gerhard Lauck’s hateful, shocking statements had no basis in fact, but he said they could not be broadcast unchallenged. We had an obligation to our audience to vet anything we put on the air.
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