Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young rowdies, both members of the tiny neo-Nazi German Reich Party, admitted desecrating the Cologne synagogue. "All decent Germans join me in condemning this atrocious act," Chancel lor Adenauer wired Cologne Rabbi Zw Asaria. A week later, without offering up any proof, the government said it was a "planned action designed to discredit the Federal Republic in the eyes of the world" and hinted that not cranks or crackpots but Communists were responsible...
...concern over the Cologne disgrace abroad." In a radio speech, President Heinrich Lubke blamed all Germans for an "overestimation of material achievement as opposed to intellectual, spiritual and moral values," and noted the continued prevalence in Germany of "arrogance, self-satisfaction and feelings of superiority." Cologne's Rabbi ZwiAsaria did not think enough was being done. Said he: "All those who held high positions under the Nazi regime and are still sitting in government offices should be ousted. German schoolteachers should tell their pupils what the Nazis did, instead of passing over the Hitler era in silence...