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...same time, the Soviets have portrayed West Germany and the U.S. as Hitler's successors. Soviet commentators have accused the West Germans of "revanchism," or wanting to retake German territories lost in the war, and have condemned Reagan's Bitburg visit as paying homage to the Nazis. The Soviets gloss over Moscow's nonaggression pact with Hitler, which lasted for 22 months before the Nazi dictator broke the agreement by invading the U.S.S.R. in June...
Many West Germans welcomed V-E day as the end of a sometimes uncomfortable period of re-examining the Nazi past. The mood was perhaps most appropriately reflected in an ecumenical service in Cologne Cathedral attended by West German government leaders and clergymen from throughout Europe. Referring to the four decades since the cease-fire, Joseph Cardinal Hoffner, the Archbishop of Cologne, pointed out that in Scripture, "forty signifies a time of trial, of testing, of toil, of endurance and of reflection...
...performed gruesome medical experiments on Nazi victims at the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II--and then he is said to have returned to his hometown of Gunzburg in Bavaria. He is said to have been arrested and released by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna in 1947--and then to have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today...
...reward money grew to that sum last week when the government of Israel and the World Zionist Organization offered $1 million to anyone not working in an official capacity who "causes Nazi Criminal Josef Mengele to be brought to trial in Israel for the terrible crimes and atrocities he perpetrated against ( the Jewish people and humanity." Among the previous rewards offered are $320,000 by the West German government, $1 million by the conservative U.S. daily the Washington Times, owned by the Unification Church, and $1 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles...
That is not how forgiveness operates. Once in the middle of the war, Simon Wiesenthal, a prisoner in a forced-labor camp in Lvov, found himself on a work detail in a hospital where a young SS officer lay wounded and dying. The Nazi made Wiesenthal sit and listen while he confessed his atrocities, including burning down a houseful of Jews in the Ukraine and shooting those who tried to escape by leaping from the smoking windows. The SS trooper, tormented by guilt, begged Wiesenthal, as a Jew, to forgive him. Wiesenthal turned and walked away. He survived the camps...