Word: kohl
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...such a degrading fuss over an event that was intended to be a moving, soothing and mutually constructive experience? The origins go back more than a year ago, when plans for the observance of the Normandy invasion anniversary were carefully worked out by officials in Washington, London and Paris. Kohl was not invited to participate, since this was seen as a celebration of the wartime victory over the Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned out that the economic summit would bring Reagan...
...Kohl brought his plans to Washington when he visited the White House last November. While there has been much confusion and some dispute between the two capitals over just what was said between Reagan and the Chancellor, there is no doubt that Kohl made an emotional appeal for the President to join him in appearing at a German military cemetery. Kohl had clasped hands on Sept. 22 with France's President François Mitterrand at a World War I cemetery in Verdun, where German as well as French soldiers are buried, and had found it a gratifying experience. Kohl mentioned...
...Kohl also suggested that Reagan might want to appear with him at a Nazi concentration camp. Neither the President nor his aides have been able, or perhaps willing, to explain just what Reagan's reaction to the camp suggestion had been, or why, months later, Reagan seemed to imply that Kohl had never formally proposed such a visit. All that seems certain is that Reagan did not focus on Kohl's camp visit proposal, an error that was to have serious consequences...
West German officials contend they were surprised when the President told reporters last month that he did not want to offend his German hosts by visiting a concentration camp, which he said would run the risk of "reawakening the passions of the time." Kohl had told him that 60% of the present German population had been born since the war, and Reagan exaggerated that point at his press conference: "Very few [of the German people are] a live that remember even the war, and certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way." The careless and obviously...
Aides to the Chancellor insist that Kohl wrote Reagan a letter shortly after his Washington visit that repeated his hopes for a presidential trip full of upbeat symbolism. One paragraph, they say, mentioned Dachau as a Konzentrationslager that Reagan should see out of respect for its victims. Reagan aides would not confirm that such a suggestion was repeated by Kohl. Moreover, they contend, lower West German officials expressed pleasure that Reagan had publicly announced his intention to avoid such an appearance. A senior Bonn official concedes, "Quite a lot of German people were pleased about the decision...