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Reagan and Kohl spent just eight minutes at the cemetery. Accompanied by two World War II officers--General Matthew Ridgway, 90, who led the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, and General Johannes Steinhoff, 71, a former Luftwaffe ace--they walked a path encircling the headstones, then stopped at a gray wall, where four German soldiers attended two tall wreaths. The two Americans and the two Germans simultaneously approached their separate wreaths. Then they stepped back as a German military bugler sounded a German tribute to lost soldiers, I Once Had a Comrade. Kohl and Reagan met some relatives of German soldiers...
Much of the credit goes to Lieut. General Johannes Steinhoff, 56, a hardened World War II ace who shot down 176 planes over Britain, Africa, Italy and Russia and had his face badly mangled in the last of his twelve crack-ups less than a month before the German surrender. Steinhoff took over the Luftwaffe in 1966 with a mandate to "pick up the pieces" of the Starfighter scandal. He tightened organizational control, farmed out some Starfighter maintenance to private industry, which was better equipped to handle it than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety...
...week to talk with Charles de Gaulle and arrange a meeting between the French President and Kiesinger in early January. The Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder, who served as Foreign Minister under Erhard, arrived at the Defense Ministry just after the Luftwaffe's new commander, Lieut. General Johann Steinhoff, grounded the service's 769 Starfighters following the 65th crash of the U.S.-designed fighter-bomber. He and Steinhoff agreed that the planes should not fly again until they are outfitted with improved ejection seats...
...President of Mecklenburg is Willi Hoecker (Social Democrat); of his three vice-presidents two are Communists. The President of Saxony is Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...
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