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...characteristically wry Jewish joke is that the Germans have reached the point of forgiving the Jews for what the Germans did to them. Despite occasional outbursts of anti-Semitism-three weeks ago rowdies toppled most of the gravestones in the Jewish cemetery at Barsinghausen -Germany's Christians have made many amends. The West German government has paid out $3.4 billion in postwar reparations to the worldwide Jewish community (with $2 billion more still to come), and it has cracked down hard on swastika painters. Thirty-one German societies promote Christian-Jewish friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Tenth Man | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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