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...death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said, "Reconciliation in the present is fine between British and Germans, French and Italians, Americans and Japanese. But in reconciling the past, with its evil and with Satan, there is no room for salving the conscience...
...know there are political and strategic reasons. But this issue, as all issues related to that awesome event, transcends politics and diplomacy. The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them, for I have seen the SS at work, and I have seen their victims. They were my friends. They were my parents...
...fight and destroy all open and secret enemies of the Führer, the National Socialist movement and our racial resurrection." Two of the guard's most notorious members were Adolf Eichmann, who was later executed for directing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, and Josef Mengele, the evil Auschwitz doctor who is still thought to be at large. Known for their viciousness and fanaticism, SS squads rounded up Jews and resisters in villages in Germany and throughout the rest of Europe and shot them on the spot...
Again and again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
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...