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Turning to the President, who sat just ten feet away, Wiesel politely noted that "a stage of reconciliation has been set in motion between us. We were always on the side of justice, always on the side of memory, against the SS and against what they represent." He said that...
Veterans' groups, acknowledging that Reagan has been a good friend of the military, were more restrained in their protests. "It would not sit well with American veterans for the President to lay a wreath at the graves of Nazi soldiers," said Clarence M. Bacon, national commander of the American Legion...
But, Mr. President, I wouldn't be the person I am ... if I were not to tell you also of the sadness that is in my heart for what happened during the last week. And I am sure that you, too, are sad for the same reasons. What can I...
Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945. Those soldiers included Brian Urquhart, now Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. "At first I saw what appeared to be a wall of logs, stacked like cordwood," Urquhart recalls. "But as I got closer, I saw it was...
Last week, after almost 20 years as the general manager of the Choeung Ek genocide memorial, Neang Say revealed to the Cambodian media a second secret about the mass graves?a plan to privatize them, turning over their management to a Japanese company so they can be transformed into a...