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...foreigners is an instrument of almost every state's international strategy. To advocate military action against another state, even when justified, is still to advocate the murder of foreigners--and sometimes even of innocent foreign civilians. An example of this might be the bombing of the German city of Dresden during World...
...Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain "So it goes" and Olympian reprimands like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind" became convenient...
...West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who helped engineer the 1962 swap of American U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, also...
...first is factual Mr. Kladko suggests that President Reagan and Helmut Kohl visit the city of Dresden as an alternative to the cemetery at Buburg. As I also have read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, including the chapter in which Kladko found the passage from David Irving's book on Dresden, I too know all about the horror of the Dresden fire-bombing. But as I read the book a little more carefully than Mr. Kladko apparently did. I noticed that in Chapter One Vonnegut describes the difficulties involved in visiting Dresden today, because it is in East Germany. Mr. Kladko...
Probably everyone, if he thought about it, would agree that a Reagan visit to Dresden would be the most fitting commemoration to the end of that war. Not only would it drive home the point that there are victims on both sides, but that there are also acts of monstrosity on both sides. If Reagan and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl-really want to heal old wounds, the best way to do it would not be by glorifying the actions of Germans and Americans who were killing each other bravely, but by mutual apology...