The producers of the NBC-TV film “Holocaust” were refused permission to shoot any of the film in East Europe where many of the Nazi death camps were located, Robert Berger, the film’s producer revealed yesterday. He said he was turned down by Hungary, Czechkslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany and Poland. The reasons given, according to Berger, were that parts of the scripts were seen as too “Zionistic,” showed people rising up against the authorities or depicted people who were not Nazis as anti-Semitic.
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