Word: holocaust
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...Bitburg, climaxed a drama that could hardly have been more unexpected or perverse. What began as a ceremonial addendum to his duties at the economic summit in Bonn had escalated into the most passionate dispute of his presidency. A gesture of friendship had instead revived memories of the Holocaust and World War II, strained relations between the U.S. and West Germany, and provoked worldwide debate. As the tumult raged on all last week, Reagan and his West German host, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, moved gamely through their appointed rounds, more the prisoners than the proprietors of their enterprise...
...fought in World War II. "To the veterans and families of American servicemen who still feel the painful losses of that war, our gesture of reconciliation today in no way minimizes our love and honor for those who fought and died for our country." To the "survivors of the Holocaust," he said: "Many of you are worried that reconciliation means forgetting. But I promise you, we will never forget...
...feelings of shock and revulsion linger 40 years after Ronald Reagan's California Air Corps unit assembled film of Holocaust victims for the general staff in Washington...
...support because they knew very much different and they knew of many things that I had done that revealed the lie of that. But this, yes, has been very painful, because no one has said oftener than I have that we must never forget and that the Holocaust must always be remembered with the knowledge that it must never be repeated. To suddenly make this as if it was something that I was doing that was hostile to the people who had suffered in the Holocaust . . . I can never forget what I saw (in the films). Granted, it wasn...
...that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other people on earth have ever had. That memory must be preserved. What I meant was that it was Nazism, not just the camps and that horror, that brought on the war, that brought on the Battle...