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...symbolism of his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, where 49 SS men are buried, clouded Reagan's goal of bringing about a healing. Before the trip, Reagan made matters worse when he said that young German soldiers were just as much victims of the Third Reich as the Jews were--a grotesque equation even if inadvertent. That statement, coupled with the visit to Bitburg, left an impression that the President of the U.S. was conferring a sort of official forgiveness upon the German army that did Hitler's work...
...cannot engage in a contest of comparative horrors. Yet there is about the Holocaust a primal and satanic mystery. And no cheap grace can redeem it. The Third Reich was the greatest failure of civilization on the planet. In Freudian terms, it was as if the superego had gone crashing down into the dark, wild...
Germany represented one of the furthest advances of the culture, yet the Third Reich profoundly perverted the entire heritage of Western achievement. It was as if Goethe had taken to eating human flesh. The scientific method, perfected over centuries, fell into the hands of Dr. Mengele and the engineers of the ovens. Hitler was not alone responsible. More than a few Germans enthusiastically followed him, saluted him and died for him. They seized the accumulated trust of 3,000 years and distilled it into unimaginable evil. They sought to extinguish not only Jews and gypsies and the rest...
REAGAN INLANDS to honor the soldiers of the Third Reich. The mentality behind Reagan's tribute is that the Germans had brave soldiers too, who showed their courage and determination in the thick of battle just as the Allied soldiers did. But what were the Nazis fighting to preserve...
These are the bitter fruits of the Third Reich. And Reagan would pay homage to the gardeners. In honor Nazis Reagan commats a grave evil. There can be no honor in defending an unjust cause...