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Last Friday Philipp Jenninger, president of the West German Parliament, resigned after an address that said many Germans felt that Adolf Hitler brought "glorious times" before the war and the Holocaust. Jenninger's nationally televised speech was meant to mark the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the vicious rampage against the Jews that began the Nazi genocide...
...speech, Jenninger described Hitler's rise to power as a "triumphal procession" for many Germans, but also stressed his own record of opposing totalitarian regimes...
Michael Fuerst, deputy chairman of the Central Council of Jews in West Germany, defended the politician. "I welcome that the Parliament president described in full clarity what was happening in Germany between 1933 and 1938, especially the fact that everything that Hitler did was strongly supported by the masses of all Germans," he said in a television interview...
Whatever his intent, Jenninger's speech contained lengthy references to the euphoria many Germans felt after Hitler gained power in 1933, occasionally without counterbalancing statements about the Nazi atrocities...
Nazi thugs destroyed 267 synagogues in West Germany, killed 91 Jews, rounded up 30,000 for shipment to concentration camps, destroyed Jewish homes and ransacked 7,500 Jewish businesses. The same thing happened in Austria, Hitler's homeland, which he had annexed to the Third Reich eight months earlier...