Himmler and Goebbels

Many thanks for publicizing the documentary film “Nuremberg” (“Ending the Silence Over ‘Nuremberg,’ ” June 2), a long-suppressed account of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust of World War II.

Historians and journalists lament the widespread ignorance of basic facts that, as your article notes, has many high school seniors and college students unaware of who Hitler and the Nazis were.

Perhaps Clifford Rothman also ought to read a bit about the Nuremberg trials. He might learn that Heinrich Himmler and Josef Goebbels, both having committed suicide at the end of the war, weren’t among the infamous defendants at Nuremberg, as the article erroneously states.

RICHARD BAER

Director of Hollywood

Film Archive