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...years ago? It is not that "younger Germans ... are less angst-ridden about their country's history" - we are certainly aware we have a "historical responsibility" - it is that we want to be freed of the weight on our shoulders for which we are not responsible. Katja Grosse-Sommer, GERMERSHEIM, GERMANY...
Fully refueled, the troops boarded trucks bound for depots at Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Pirmasens and Germersheim to pick up their prepositioned hardware-319 M48 medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous...
...desperation the fat Mayor of Germersheim leaped upon a truck, begged the mob in the Fatherland's name to disgrace Germany no further, promised to go to Munich and intercede in their behalf...
Shrewd and essentially phlegmatic, the German peasants knew a good offer when they saw it. Nevertheless they prepared to remain at Germersheim, according to their leaders, "until the Government agrees to let us keep the vines we have...
...Munich, Dr. Heinrich Held, Bavarian Prime Minister, declared martial law in Germersheim...