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BONN, West Germany--The president of Parliament resigned yesterday, bowing to condemnation of a speech in which he said many Germans felt Adolf Hitler brought "glorious times" before the Holocaust and global...
Michael Fuerst, deputy chairman of the Central Council of Jews in West Germany, defended the politician. "I welcome that the Parliament president described in full clarity what was happening in Germany between 1933 and 1938, especially the fact that everything that Hitler did was strongly supported by the masses of all Germans," he said in a television interview...
About 50 members of Parliament began to walk out at that point in the speech, which was broadcast live on national television...
Jenninger did not say whether he would continue in Parliament. He has been a member since 1969 and was a close aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl before becoming president four years...
...Over the past year, the Conservative surge looked as if it might be unstoppable, and Botha unsuccessfully tried to ! engineer a constitutional amendment that would postpone the test for two more years. Now that the rightist threat seems to be at least temporarily quarantined in the Transvaal, many in Parliament speculate that he will call an election early next year and thus project his brand of crabbed and segregated reform into the middle of the next decade...