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...course, a delicate matter to seek reconciliation among World War II enemies without seeming to paper over the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust. Yet for a White House staff that prides itself on its mastery of public relations and for a President who has shown great skill in the use of symbolic gestures, the task should have been fairly routine. Instead, a series of staff miscues and a lack of sensitivity by the President not only cast a pall over his German trip, they managed to stir up all the old wartime passions that Reagan had hoped...
...guilt over Nazi atrocities. Complained one of Kohl's closest aides: "Our friends overseas have to make up their minds whether we are friends, fighting shoulder and shoulder together, or whether we are just the offspring of Nazis." In the U.S. and Israel, in the very week that poignant Holocaust remembrances were being held, Jewish leaders were outraged at what they considered Reagan's lack of appreciation of the Nazi horrors. They were mystified by his insistence on the cemetery visit, since he had long been a staunch ally of Israel and had even shed tears when watching films...
Irving defended his reputation and refused to be deemed a Holocaust denier...
...don’t use the phrase the ‘Holocaust’ because I don’t believe in the marketing approach of the ‘Holocaust,’” he said. “But I went into more detail about the individual aspects of the Nazi atrocities against the Jews and used original sources...
...SPAN wants to cover him, let them cover him,” said Marvin Kalb, a senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and a signatory. “But C-SPAN should not be balancing the Holocaust with a denier...