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FOOTNOTE: *Reprinted by permission of Robert Graves.
The corpses were, to be sure, committed as quickly as possible to mass graves, but by that time they had been lying in the open long enough to arouse fears of epidemics. Only a few days after the storm struck, 40 people were dead of cholera, and others were described...
Only seven days earlier, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had endured the strain of President Reagan's controversial visit to a military cemetery at Bitburg with its Nazi graves. Last week the Chancellor faced an ordeal that was, in terms of his political future, more significant. In the most important...
The scene Sunday was filled with poignancy, the mood as dark as the grim German day. The President of the United States, holding the hand of his wife Nancy, paced somberly through the museum of Bergen-Belsen, one of the concentration camps where Holocaust victims were exterminated as part of...
After the solemnity of the cemetery scene, the mood shifted at the air base, where a German military band played The Star-Spangled Banner and U.S. Air Force musicians followed with the West German national anthem. Reagan and Kohl stood at attention on a raised blue platform before 7,500...