Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veterans and young people to "prevent the fire of war from burning our earth." A few of the U.S. veterans were concerned about President Reagan's plans to visit the graves of German war dead in West Germany. Some distributed leaflets reading, "Celebrate the 40th anniversary of victory over Hitler with living American and Russian heroes, not dead Nazis...
...Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped to 54%, from 60% in late March and a dazzling 68% in January...
President Reagan's visit is seen by many people--including large portions of the West German population--as an act of forgiveness to Germans who fought under Hitler. A member of the West German Parliament has said that "God's mercy also extends to the buried SS soldiers." God's mercy, perhaps, but not America's tribute Only God and the victims can give the Nazi butchers their ultimate forgiveness. The President offers German consciences a flawed pardon at the expense of historical understandings; this is an unacceptable tradeoff. By his words and planned visit. President Reagan has blurred...
...That would be unendurable. So they devise a plan--sort of a mutual assured destruction--and it might have worked until an "airborne toxic event" forced them to evacuate their small college town with their family, tearing Jack away from his cherished position as chairman of the "Department of Hitler Studies" at the local university...
...disastrous attempt to bury the hatchet, Reagan had initially refused to visit Holocaust sites during his visit to Germany for the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, he decided to visit a German war cemetery where some of Adolf Hitler's SS troops are buried...