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Reigning In Horsegate Scandal's Best And Worst, As Internet Is Off To Races

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PARIS - Call it "Horsegate" or just a really bad case of un-authentic Italian food, but the story of horse meat winding up in one of Europe's most popular brands of "all beef" frozen lasagne has been galloping on for four days. We have Romanian meat in question? And also e-questrian.

You see where this is going: with France, Sweden, Ireland, Romania and the UK all hee-ing and haw-ing about what exactly to do with the scandal, we decided to reign in the Internet's worst kind of horsing around with the sort-of-serious news.

Any one for spag bog?#findus#horsemeattwitter.com/mykkym1/status…

— suerose (@mykkym1) February 10, 2013

@tutor2u_graham another one from the Trot-ters #horsegatetwitter.com/KESecon/status…

— Paul Sheppard (@KESecon) February 9, 2013

They won't Findus in here #horsegatetwitter.com/foodiequine/st…

— Claire Jessiman (@foodiequine) February 8, 2013

And still the jokes keep coming..... #horsegatetwitter.com/iam00blonde/st…

— Blondi (@iam00blonde) February 9, 2013

#findus & #tesco should be ashamed..look what 4 year old Elsie made me ... twitter.com/Hayden1974/sta…

— Hayden Groves (@Hayden1974) February 10, 2013

Oh dear #Findus You left a trail of breadcrumbs for us then!! #Horsegate#horsemeattwitter.com/tractorboy_dan…

— Dan Bridges (@tractorboy_dan) February 10, 2013

Martine aime les lasagnes (vu sur Internet). twitter.com/CTrivalle/stat…

— Christophe Trivalle (@CTrivalle) February 11, 2013

Il est temps de remettre à jour les manuels scolaire #Findus#ChevalGatetwitter.com/benoitlebreau/…

— Benoit Lebreau (@benoitlebreau) February 10, 2013

Seems @marksandspencer aren't too sure what's in their sandwiches either ;-) #horsegate#beef#horsetwitter.com/Lilla_Pete/sta…

— Lil Pete (@Lilla_Pete) February 10, 2013

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Where 'The Zone Of Interest' Won't Go On Auschwitz — A German Critique Of New Nazi Film

Rudolf Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp who lived with his family close to the camp. Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, a favorite to win at the Cannes Festival, tells Höss' story, but fails to address the true inhumanity of Nazism, says Die Welt's film critic.

Where 'The Zone Of Interest' Won't Go On Auschwitz — A German Critique Of New Nazi Film

A still from The Zone of Interest by

Hanns-Georg Rodek

-Essay-

BERLIN — This garden is the pride and joy of Hedwig, the housewife. She has planned and laid out everything — the vegetable beds and fruit trees and the greenhouse and the bathtub.

Her kingdom is bordered on one long side by a high, barbed-wire wall. Gravel paths lead to the family home, a two-story building with clean lines, no architectural frills. Her husband praises her when he comes home after work, and their three children — ages two to five — play carefree in the little "paradise," as the mother calls her refuge.

The wall is the outer wall of the concentration camp Auschwitz; in the "paradise" lives the camp commander Rudolf Höss with his family.

The film is called The Zone of Interest — after the German term "Interessengebiet," which the Nazis used to euphemistically name the restricted zone around Auschwitz — and it is a favorite among critics at this week's Cannes Film Festival.

The audacity of director Jonathan Glazer's style takes your breath away, and it doesn't quickly come back.

It is a British-Polish production in which only German is spoken. The real house of the Höss family was not directly on the wall, but some distance away, but from the upper floor, Höss's daughter Brigitte later recalled, she could see the prisoners' quarters and the chimneys of the old crematorium.

Glazer moved the house right up against the wall for the sake of his experimental arrangement, a piece of artistic license that can certainly be justified.

And so one watches the Höss family go about their daily lives: guiding visitors through the little garden, splashing in the tub, eating dinner in the house, being served by the domestic help, who are all silent prisoners. What happens behind the wall, they could hear and smell. They must have heard and smelled it. You can see the red glow over the crematorium at night. You hear the screams of the tortured and the shots of the guards. The Höss family blocks all this out.

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