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...German leader. After decades of unrelenting East bloc propaganda that described "the spirit of militarism and fascism" as a purely Western affliction, Honecker has tried to steer a more nationalist course, chiefly on cultural and historical issues. King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor," have been restored to grace in East German schoolbooks. In 1983, East Germany celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, who is now described as "an initiator of a great revolutionary movement." The celebration underlined Honecker's modus vivendi with East Germany's Protestant churches, which have...
When President Reagan and Chancellor Kohl of West Germany first discussed the idea, it seemed like a good one: a V-E day visit by the President to a cemetery in Germany where American and German soldiers lie side by side. It would be a ceremony of friendship and reconciliation...
...course, become a disaster. It turned out that no American dead from World War II are buried in Germany. It would have to be a purely German cemetery. And it turned out that Bitburg, the one suggested by Chancellor Kohl, contained the graves of 47 members...
Commemorating victory over radical evil demands more than theater, history or politics. Among the purposes of remembrance are pedagogy (for those who were not there) and solace (for those too much there). But the highest aim of remembrance (for us, here) is redemption. The President and the Chancellor did indeed want this V-E day to bring some good from evil. But for that to happen at Bitburg will require more than two politicians. It will require an act of grace, and that is not for politicians--or other mortals--to dispense...
...unseemly scrambling among photographers or the squabbling among networks. They already suspect that journalistic enterprise is not unwaveringly high-minded. More troubling was the belief that television egged on the hijackers by providing such visibility for their propaganda. "We were far too available to every side," said John Chancellor, NBC's senior news commentator. "Our failure to control ownership of the story may have been the problem...