Word: holocaust
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...couldn't happen here, or could it? As President Germany, where he honored Nazi SS troops, it's surprising that some liberal Ed Schooler didn't suggest all the Jewish students, putting them behind barbed wire and branding them with inventory numerals to demonstrate the realities of the Holocaust to Reagan's ruling class...
...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...
...solidarity by the Gentiles who wore it also We be have an appropriate form of commemoration for all the victims, and repudiation of Mr. Reagan's act, would be for all people--Jewish and Gentile--to wear a yellow armband this Sunday. "The issue here is not politics," said Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, "but good and evil, And we must never confuse them...
Said Rosensalt, "While he refuses to go to pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust on the site of a Nazi concentration camp, he now intends to go to a German military cemetery and lay a wreath on a grave of German soldiers who wore a swastika on their uniform and who died preventine Allied forces from liberating the death camps...
...apathetic criteria can augment them Reagan might change his mind, but the intent was there, Kenneth Bialk chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, says, "What kind of symbolism does one attach to a visit that includes a ceremony to the agents of the Holocaust at the same time that he has chosen not to show the same kind of reverence for the victims...