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...Jews remain in Germany today. Their number is minuscule, their presence barely visible -- certainly nothing like the vibrant and bustling pre-Hitler communities centered in Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities that accounted for nearly 1% of the population before 1933. Those who have chosen to live in Germany explain their presence in several ways: a continuing sense of a shared culture, a mission to prod German conscience and memory, and business opportunities...
...pleasant life, however, does not erase ambivalence about the past. The Moseses, for example, are concerned that Germans gloss over guilt for the Hitler years and the Holocaust by focusing on their own suffering during World War II. The feeling transcends the generations. Says Ariel Karmeli, 25, born in Frankfurt to Jewish parents hailing from Syria and Iran: "My culture is German. Frankfurt is my city. Germany is my country. But here I must constantly justify myself to others. When I get on a bus and see an old man, I ask myself, 'What did he do in World...
...cannot decommunize a whole society overnight," says Friedrich Magirius, superintendent of Leipzig's Protestant churches, who notes that East Germany was "a typical dictatorship in which anybody who wanted to achieve something, to climb professionally, had to adapt." Hans Meyer, a law professor at the University of Frankfurt, argues that in East Germany the line between victim and criminal was perilously thin. "Very often," he says, "a person will have resisted in one respect but helped the regime in another...
Even more influential than London's mounting rates, however, are West Germany's. Some economists blame the Bundesbank's late-December increase in its key interest rate, rather than the Bank of Japan's boost, for triggering January's wave of increases. The Frankfurt central bank is concerned about inflation because of West Germany's supercharged economy. In spite of the Bundesbank's credit tightening, the Frankfurt stock exchange is up 1% so far this year. The main reason: investors feel confident that West German companies will realize tremendous gains in the opening of East European markets...
...Homburg, an elite spa north of Frankfurt, is home to many of West Germany's top executives and bankers. Last Thursday morning the most eminent of the lot, Alfred Herrhausen, 59, chief executive of Deutsche Bank and personal economic adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, left his home at the usual time, shortly after 8:30 a.m., and set out for Frankfurt's financial district in his armored, chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 500SE, escorted by two other automobiles with four bodyguards. The car had traveled 550 yds. along a tree-lined street when a tremendous explosion hurled it into...