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Not much of Bergen-Belsen remains today. A 25-meter-high gray stone obelisk marks the site, rising above it like a baleful warning. Inscribed on its side is a singular commandment: EARTH CONCEAL NOT THE BLOOD SHED ON THEE! Fourteen long, low mounds of mass graves are marked simply...
Of the SS graves at Kolmeshöhe, Bitburg Mayor Theo Hallet says, "Everybody knows that there is not a single military cemetery in Germany without tombs of SS soldiers."
It has, of course, become a disaster. It turned out that no American dead from World War II are buried in Germany. It would have to be a purely German cemetery. And it turned out that Bitburg, the one suggested by Chancellor Kohl, contained the graves of 47 members of...
If the distinction seems subtle, after the discovery of Waffen SS graves the need for subtlety vanishes. Even if one claims that the ordinary German soldier fought for Germany and not for Hitler, that cannot be said of the Waffen SS. Hitler's 1938 edict declared them to be "a...
Of all the cemeteries of World War II, one containing such men is the most unworthy of a visit by an American President. The most worthy--the graves of Allied liberators or of the Nazis' victims--were originally excluded from President Reagan's agenda. After the furor, the Administration hastily...