European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine Cloud of nazi terror still hangs Over West German jews by James Markham new York times a policeman discreetly keeps an Eye on Frankfurt sole Kosher which has no sign to advertise its a closed Cir Cuit television monitors the on the bulletin Board notices from Tel Aviv University Jostle others about a film series organized by the jews of Frankfurt to Mark the 40th anniversary of the nazi Over Ignatz Bubis said he and his both survivors of death had gone to see Alfred Hitchcock film about she didst sleep for a said who was freed by the red army in wandered from Poland to West stayed on in Germany and did Well in the construct tort business in maybe it was a Bubis said musing on the Chain of Small decisions that left him among the few thousand jews to Settle in Germany after the most of the Camp people went to you sometimes you stay somewhere and its even not its a the musing hinted at the lingering predicament of the roughly jews who for want of another Call West Germany for these the the guilt and the unease of living in what some Call the land of the murderers Are sharpened this year As germans try to come to grips with a difficult few jews seem to find the West germans efforts or even Chancellor Helmut who often recalls that he was Only 15 when Hitler shot himself in his Berlin seems to exemplify the National mood that envelops West Germany on a trip to Israel a year Kohl offended some of his hosts by suggesting that his postwar generation bore the Burden of the past More lightly than its at the invitation of West Germany Kohl will speak at a memorial ceremony at the site of the Bergen Belsen Camp near Celle april starting at 11 the jews seem to have selected the Date so that the horror of the death Camps will be officially and engraved on the popular before the May 8 anniversary of Germany West German president Richard von Weizsacker will also attend the which will be televised nationally by the German Adf some jews say they find that German commentaries concerning the May 8 anniversary have seemed to dwell excessively on the bombed German cities and the refugees driven from their Homes by the advancing red if the germans Are sad about the said Albert a 74yearold journalist and film maker in West they have to be sad that Hitler the germans should think More about Why they allowed themselves to be led by this crazy and what would have happened if Hitler had there is too much talk about May 8 As the col continued who grew up in Berlin before the War and returned after years in the soviet Union via Israel in the real collapse was when Hitler came to for jews who lived to see the May was unequivocally a Day of liberation for Many it is hard to reconcile the ennobling concept of liberation with the searing one of May 8 Means the defeat of National the defeat of an inhuman said Heinz an Auschwitz survivor and patriarch of the West Berlin it was Only the perpetrators of inhumanity who we Only wish the people around us would also see this As we As one of the anniversary has brought into Relief the deep ambivalence that jews in West Germany feel about the people they live Many jews say that the packed suitcase the threatening sense that one might have to depart at any has but that at the same time jewish children never feel quite at Home in last the number of israeli applications for West German passports to this steady trickle of israeli jews coming to West Germany has helped mask the stigma other jews once Felt about living in most of the israelis say they Are drawn by economic not so Long Many West German jews said they would conceal their nationality on trips to Maccabee sports teams from West Germany openly com Pete there As German Michael a Paris born grew up in was president of his German High school and says he never personally experienced antisemitism among his German coir eat hot the blood awol my file photo Heinz Galinski left at symbolic rites in West Berlin jewish cemetery for victims of april 1985 jews were killed at dont he when you Are speaking about Young people in their Early 20s you Are talking about the third they say it was my grandfathers Gen dont bother me about As another symptom of a tentative Friedman said Young jews were now being inducted into the West German he said that if he married and had he would expect them to do the for every step Forward into German there seems to be a step during the israeli invasion of Lebanon in a Small group of leftist jews joined forces with West German leftists and palestinians and staged protest including one in front of the Israel embassy in Micha a professor of education at Hei Delberg now has doubts about having taken it was Correct to protest against this said whether it was right to do it in Germany i dont know in ant Israel sentiments can turn very quickly into Antisemitic like other Brumlic says he is troubled by parallels Between the ant jewish hatred of the 1930s and the sentiments against foreign particularly in West Germany and he said he also detected an unsettling ant Israel tone on the West German political and among the opponents of nuclear Bru licks parents took Refuge in Switzerland during the he recalls his mothers profound reluctance to move Back to she said it was like moving into an open he and so my generation grew up with this Schizo phrenic and lived Here with a bad the stars and stripes Page 13