Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some commentators argue that just as West Germany had to live with the shame of the Nazi years, it is now the East's turn to expiate collective guilt. Margarete Mitscherlich, a Frankfurt psychoanalyst, rejects that equation. "The Stasi is not the Gestapo, and Honecker is not Hitler," she says. "Whatever one can say about the Stasi, we are not now confronted with Auschwitz as we were after Hitler." Another Frankfurt law professor, Erhard Denninger, agrees that comparisons with the Nazi era are inexact. "The Nuremberg trials dealt with crimes against humanity and genocide," he argues. "You can't charge...
Some ambivalence remains about the details of unification. Wiethoff is not sure the capital should be moved to Berlin. "Berlin reminds me of the great Nazi marches of the '30s and '40s, of Hitler's 'Do you want total war?' " he says. "Bonn stands for 40 years of tested democracy...
...domestic side, questions remain on how to raise the East to the West's level of prosperity and how to smooth the joining of different economic and social systems. There are arguments about where the new capital should be: in the imperial -- and Nazi -- capital of Berlin or in democratic but provincial Bonn...
...reason that Mandela's life -- and De Klerk's -- could be at risk. A South African newspaper, Vrye Weekblad, last week reported that it had uncovered a right- wing plot to murder Mandela, De Klerk and other figures. According to the paper, the plot was worked out by former Nazi Captain Heinrich Beissner, a regional head of the right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement. It called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July 18. The Afrikaner group also allegedly planned to blow up power stations, assassinate...
...must be honest with oneself. We had two wars in this century. Everyone tumbled into World War I out of foolishness. But there is no question that Hitler was responsible for World War II and that the crimes perpetrated by the Nazi tyranny were terrible crimes. We cannot expect that memory to be erased in people's minds...