European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 a photos death Camp survivors Sam Majzner left and Joseph Solski attend a ceremony in los at jewish veterans and friends Lay wreaths at Arlington National protesters decry reagans Pitburg visit by the associated press protests at Home were mixed with words of Hope and reconciliation sunday As president Reagan visited a military cemetery in West Germany where members of a nazi is unit Are buried among German War about 700 people gathered at Arlington National cemetery near Washington and applauded holocaust survivor Benjamin Meed As he there can be no reconciliation Between murderers and their Vic we must not betray our president of the federation of jewish holocaust said reagans visit to the Pitburg cemetery implied that All the War dead were the Nathan National director of the anti defamation league of Bani issued a statement in new York saying the visit showed an insensitivity to the victimized Howard president of the american jewish said Rea Gans remarks at the Bergen Belsen concentration Camp and at Pitburg a were eloquent and his visit to Konrad Adenauer grave most but the cemetery visit marred what would have been a significant the Donn who gave the invocation at both of reagans presiden tial called the trip a bad mis take and said there could have been a bet ter Way of honouring the War Moomaw greeted jewish defense league protestors outside his presbyterian where Reagan once and joined them in we have been wounded today by what we have seen and what we have holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel told peo ple rallying in new York for soviet who urged the president not to visit Pitburg in a White House speech said if Pitburg symbolized a certain Mea sure of insensitivity toward jewish this Solidarity rally symbolizes a ment to jewish in protesters held a Candle Light Vigil As they read the names of holocaust victims with ties in about people joined the annual walk with which commemorates the founding of the jewish and heard reagans visit we Are not attempting to impose guilt on this generation of germans who were not responsible for these but we believe that the presidents action dese crates the memory of All victims of the nazi said a statement issued by Walkki Hisrael also in a Small group stood in rain to Honor members of the White Rose germans who resisted Adolf we Are Here to Honor that Posi Loving element if it is not in every human we Are said Moe organizer of the other groups staged protests against Rea Gans Pitburg visit in los West Hartford and new and the american legion opposed the cemetery National commander Clarence Bacon said in but it seemed to me in listening to the presi dents speech that he had a very upbeat and positive statement in order to further reconciliation Between the United states and West Bacon the Jerry Falwell and Coretta Scott King were among 43 signers of an open letter which said reagans visit mocks the suffering and death of millions of we know that is not your said the published As a paid advertisement in the sunday new York and so we your place is not at Pitburg but with the so that in your own words never again will the world stand silent before mans inhumanity to about two dozen veterans and some 400 other people gathered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to protest reagans Pitburg Morris Kanfer of the United veterans Council of Philadelphia said Reagan had shamed the men and women who have died to serve this in about 500 people at tended a Wreath laying ceremony to Honor members of Maryland 29th div who fought in world War Shultz cites twin themes of Reagan visits Washington up Secretary of state George Shultz said sunday that president reagans twin visits to the Bergen Belsen death Camp and the German Mili tary cemetery at Pitburg Are an insurance policy on never Shultz also said one of hitlers is troops buried at Pitburg was himself a victim of nazi having been killed for Refus ing to execute Shultz said pairing the cemetery ceremony with a tour of the concentration Camp created an Opportunity to have that never never again imprinted on by taking these two conflicting emotions and joining them trying to join those emotions revulsion Over hitlers atrocities and the reconciliation of world War ii adversaries is an intense emotional Shultz said in an interview on lbs television broadcast from aside from the controversy Over the Pitburg which is real and under the big themes to me on the one not lets but never for and thereby take on an insurance policy on never Shultz but at the same see that you do have the German at least the West German a free a democratic joined with others to protect that very free and i think in a is a Beautiful bringing but very picking up a theme Reagan used in de fending the Pitburg visit that some Ger Man troops were just As much victims of Hitler As concentration Camp inmates Shultz recounted the Story or an unnamed is Man he said was interred at it was for by dig Ging up one of those Graves at the time the is were moved i and one was dug up on the insistence of the he and they found that that is was buried in the uniform of a concentration Camp he had been executed be cause he refused to execute Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 1945 total surrender of Ger Man forces on All fronts the end of the War in Europe was believed near As third army and soviet troops drove deeper into the biggest Island of resistance 30 years ago today May 1955 a West German government spokesman announced that Bonn would begin negotiations with the Western allies soon for a new treaty to redefine the rights of Allied troops in West 20 years ago today May 1965 the organization of american states approved a Resolution Call ing for establishment of an inter american military Force to help bring peace to the dominican to years ago today May 1975 Saigon ruling Mili tary management committee broadcast its first order a demand that All military officers and policemen and All former government workers Register be tween May 8 and May 31 and turn in All Money and
