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...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 Hitler's Final Solution. As the Reagans passed picture after picture of wretched inmates and naked corpses, they had trouble holding back their emotions. Proceeding to an 80-ft. gray stone obelisk that towers above the camp's mounded mass graves, Reagan spoke huskily of Bergen-Belsen's dead, who include...
...soldiers attended two tall wreaths. The two Americans and the two Germans simultaneously approached their separate wreaths. Then they stepped back as a German military bugler sounded a German tribute to lost soldiers, I Once Had a Comrade. Kohl and Reagan met some relatives of German soldiers who opposed Hitler and then passed German and U.S. military honor guards...
...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...