European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aily Magazine by David Minthorn associated press from Prussia Rise in the 18th Century to the contemporary legacy of Adolf the world has grappled with the German prob German history embodies both the Zenith and Nadir of Mankind Western culture reached a Peak in the creations of Bach and Goethe and then it crashed to the Depths when the germans threw in with Hitler in 1933 and took the path that led to Auschwitz and other 40 years after the defeat of the nazi Germany remains one of the worlds most vexing prob it is artificially divided into rival Power blocs and is the Only place in the world where the two superpowers face each other with powerful military Force the potential flashpoint for global nuclear half the West germans alive today were born after 1945 and have no personal memories of world War ii or the nazi atrocities committed in the name of their but a recent Survey by a West Ger Man polling indicated that 61 percent of Ger mans younger than 25 wanted to know More about the nazi which is often treated superficially in school history lessons while the achievements of postwar Ger Many Are Chancellor Helmut speaking at the Bergen Belsen concentration Camp in Northern Germany on april the anniversary of its liberation by British said that germans must accept our shame and our historical responsibility for nazi fringe groups of Young Neo nazis and unrepentant former members of nazi legions still tar Nish West Germany reputation at Home and aging veterans of is divisions like the deaths head and the Hitler youth organization trigger uproar every year by insisting on staging reunions at rented police usually have to be called in to shield them from angry the West German Interior which super vises National Security says West Germany has 68 righting organizations with including 16 groups with members who Are Avo wedly Interior ministry spokesman Han Guenter Kowalski said there has been a steady increase in membership in righting extremist groups Over the past 10 but he noted that far right candidates polled less than 1 percent of the vote in the 1983 National left Wing terrorists like the red army faction pose a far greater threat in their struggle to undermine West German society with attacks on gov military and business nearly 30 most of them Urban have died in the violence dating Back to the Early authorities say that a recent rash of bombings and the assassination of a prominent West German industrialist near Munich show the undiminished fanaticism of the red army which is thought to have Only about two dozen hardcore having overcome the wartime disaster in material Germany is now a showcase of radically differ ent social systems democratic capitalism in West Germany and authoritarian communism in East Ger the communists have walled off their territory to prevent free movement Between East and and president Erich Honecker of East Germany has insisted in speeches that the countries will remain but Between the divided German there is an undeniable emotional tug toward fully a Quarter of West Germany 60 million people have relatives among the 17 million East Chancellor Kohls adhering to the West German constitutional goal of promotes travel to East Germany and backs subsidies and favourable Trade arrangements with East Berlin in the name of easing the lives of East German judged by opinion Public sentiment in West Germany favors particularly if it would mean withdrawal of nuclear arms from a Region bristling with and soviet a poll last year by the Allensbach Institute showed that 53 percent of West germans Over age 16 want a nonaligned while diplomatic relations Between the two Ger Many have warmed considerably in the past two the United states and the soviet Union have been unable or unwilling to guide the states toward rec in one scenario for and soviet the two Germany 40 years after defeat file photo although the Wall divides the there is an emotional tug toward military forces would disengage from the two Germany to permit a United country under strict critics have that a nonaligned Germany might come under heavy pressure from the rival and that a Power vacuum in Central Europe could trigger world War after two German invasions this Western and Eastern neighbors Arent eager to see a United Ger Many of 77 million people again dominating Central the burning Issue among Young Ger mans is the presence of troops and nuclear weapons in West Germany to a lesser the soviet military deployment in East in the fall of More than 1 million West Ger mans staged peaceful marches against the deployment of new Pershing ii nuclear the marchers rarely mentioned soviet ss20 contending they could do nothing about the the Rise of the environmentalist greens which advocates West German withdrawal from is a symptom of the ant establishment mood in the Young the greens polled 5 to 10 per cent of the vote in recent elections to stake a claim As the country third largest despite its tight political East Berlin has been unable to impose total political conformity on the and As Many As people want to emigrate to West according to Western diplomatic in an Effort to get rid of what it describes As Malcon East Germany permitted More than peo ple to emigrate to West Germany last in previous about were permitted to West Germany has the Western worlds third largest Economy and a High Standard of but unemployment stands at million or 10 percent of the labor East Germany Gross National product now outstrips that of Italy and the soviet Union on a per capita along with its people enjoy the highest living Standard in the soviet yet its per capita income of is Only about half that of West Ger May 1985 the stars and stripes rape 13