European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes v to the and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 19 May 1985 end sunday 0 8693 a in Europe 1985 Reagan honors War dead visits Bif Burg cemetery airmen from Pitburg a Salute president Reagan and Chancellor Kohl at Pitburg military a photo by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Germany president Reagan honoured jewish victims of the holocaust and Ger Man War dead sunday in his Effort to celebrate 40 years of peace Between the United states and Germany despite protests from jewish and Ameri can veterans with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl by his Laid a Wreath at the military cemetery in where 49 Waffen is soldiers Are buried among German War dead from two world police in riot gear charged into a group of jewish demonstrators who surged Forward As they waited for reagans return from the Kolmes Hoehe never chanted the Many of them wearing Yarmulke and yellow stars similar to those jews were forced to Wear during Adolf hitlers third no arrests were made among the 200 jews and their Many of them students from the United states and the scuffle with about 25 police broke up after five and no other violence was also accompanying Reagan and Kohl were first ladies Nancy Reagan and Hannelore the two Heads of state were at the cemetery for about seven minutes before going to the air Force base in where they reviewed american and German troops and addressed about civilian workers and Pitburg we do not believe in collective Only god can look into the human Reagan said Irva 15minute speech at the he told of his earlier visit to the Barge Nielsen concentration Camp and the great sadness he Felt that history could be filled with such destruction and but my heart was also lifted by the knowledge that from the ashes has come and that from continued on Page 28 Kohl take walk into past1 by Mary Hladky staff writer Germany in an emotional gesture of re Concilia president Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl recalled the most monstrous acts of world War ii sunday and told citizens of the United states and West Germany the horror cannot out last the we Are struck by the horror of it All the incomprehensible Reagan said in remarks pre pared for delivery at the site of the former Bergen Belsen concentration both leaders1 remarks were made to television audiences in both in his prepared remarks at said we Bow in Sor Row before the victims of murder and the supreme goal of our political efforts is to Render impossible any repetition of that systematic destruction of human life and Reagan said his visit was a painful president Reagan Speaks at photo walk into the past and no one of the rest of us can fully understand the enormity of the feelings carried by the victims of these while hundreds of jews and others protested Reagan briefly toured the former nazi concentration where thousands of bodies Are buried under a huge Mound of Heather blanketed he then Laid a Wreath at the foot of an obelisk memorial to the dead and paused for a minute of silent we Are Here because humanity re fuses to accept that Freedom or the spirit of Man can Ever be Extin Reagan we Are Here to commemorate that life triumphed Over the tragedy and the death of the overcame the the the the Gas who was accompanied by his Kohl and Kohls addressed an audience of German officials and a few americans see walk on Page 28