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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...
Newspapers spoke of the nation's "rage and shame" and demanded swift police action; the Minister of Interior hinted that he might ban the German Reich Party (whose former Nazi leaders professed innocence). But the Socialist Neue Rhein Zeitung of Cologne complained that "all these telegrams and expressions of regret . . . seem to be prompted by the 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...
...dismisses the German dream of recovering the "lost provinces." De Gaulle is obviously no enthusiast for a reunited Germany that would be bigger in population than France. In his memoirs (now compulsory reading in all alert chancelleries), De Gaulle described his postwar German policy-"end of the centralized Reich, autonomy for the left bank of the Rhine," and some kind of loose federal regime, which, he said, was the only way that "the Russians might allow the Prussian and Saxon territories to remain branches of the main trunk...
Most West Germans have dropped their recollections of Hitler's Reich down a convenient memory hole and are disinclined to resurrect them. To make sure that they are nonetheless nudged from time to time is the task of a small but diligent scholarly organization with the innocuous name Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), housed in a quiet, three-story house in Munich, the city where Hitler got his start...
Testing the Fakes. The mass counterfeiting of British money was an audacious Nazi trick with a double purpose: to undermine British currency and to finance Gestapo operations abroad. For special Section 6-F-4 of the Reich Security Office, it proved to be a tough job. It took top German engravers seven months to get a satisfactory plate made (the figure of Britannia gave them particular trouble), and still longer to match the bluish rag paper that the real notes were printed on. Dates and serial numbers were carefully checked against real ones. At last came the test. A Gestapo...