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Protesting the American tendency to view all anti-communists as paragons of virtue, Shirer denied that criticism of Germany should be suppressed to maintain a common front against the Soviet Union...
...denauer deliberately decided to stress economic recovery and attachment to West rather than reunification, Shirer pointed out. Expressing dismay at the additional American advocacy of reunificatioin, he declared that such a step would almost preclude the possibility of pro-Western Germany...
...that Adenauer appears to be fading out of the picture, Shirer said, West Germany will surely drift closer to the Soviet Union. Both Erhard and Strauss would deal with Russia and East Germany. And, although he expressed some admiration for Erhard, Shirer claimed that Strauss is potentially dangerous- "a little Bismark perhaps...
Willy Brandt might be a solution to German problem, according to Shirer, but he doubted that the Social Democrats could ever obtain a majority in additionally conservative and Catholic West Germany...
...answer to a question, Shirer asserted that anti-Semitism remains fairly strong in Germany. Most appalling, though, he said, is the refusal of the schools to inform students concerning the atrocities of the Third Reich...