European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 23. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 former is soldiers Welcome . Vets by de reams staff writer Frankfurt american pc crans of inc 70th inf div arrived Here sunday morning for their much critics cd meeting with former members of inc German is. The 50-Pcrson . Group composed of vets and their families was reeled by a Small contingent of German veterans of the 6th is div North bearing a Welcome sign some sporting Western style string neckties. In an interview two spokesmen for the . Group Floyd Freeman and do Lyle Omholt stressed that the americans were Here to pay their respects to old friends. We Are not Here us an official delegation of our veterans association but on a private basis said Freeman a travel agent in California who has been on five such reunion visits. We be become Good friends Over the years. And in spite of All the bad press we be received of All the letters i be received about the visit Only five took the Simon pics Anthal position. The majority encouraged us Ana told us we were not damaging the prestige of America in any Way Omholt said. Pics Anthal head of the jewish documentation Center in Vienna cabled of Holt of Lola wis. In his capacity As presi Dent of the 70th inf div association asking that the meeting be cancelled. The 16-Day trip originally planned to include Wreath laying ceremonies at Mili tary cemeteries in St avoid France and in bad Windesheim and Koblen Ger Many has been denounced not Only by Many jewish leaders in the United states and abroad but also by members of French and German wartime resistance groups and by the opposition social Democrat and Green parties in Germany. We respect the viewpoint of those who do not want us to meet and that is Why the germans will not participate in the St. Avoid Wreath laying ceremony Omholt said. After conferring sunday the two Veter ans groups were to decide to what extent they could keep to their original schedules a photo by Dave Dudlo members of the 70th inf i group Floyd Freeman left and Delyle Omholt right talk with German Al Wilhelm gotten Stroeder. Omholt said. Freeman who organi cd the Lour said he understood that inc 6lh is div North members were not concentration Camp this was the Waffon is the fight ing is regular soldiers and not involved in any War crimes. When we first consid ered contacting these men we asked the . Government if the unit had been involved in any atrocities and they gave them a clean record. And now we have All this bad reaction to our meetings that have been going on since 1975." that s absolutely True said Andrea Cimbal of the Van Union of nazi persecution victims. The Van was blamed by the is Veter ans spokesman Wilhelm  for starting the Campaign against the reunion which Cimbal does t deny. Cimbal said the 6th is div North was never accused of committing War crimes. But it was formed out of the 6th and 7th death head units in 1941. If you read Heinrich Himmler s address speech to the newly formed 6th is div North held in Stettin in june 1941, you la see that their Mission was no less horrendous than the other is units. The official history of the unit Chr Stammbach also shows that individuals of the 6th is div North were As signed to it from concentration Camp duty and Back. Individuals like Karl Brenner first commander of the unit was chief of police in occupied Warsaw Poland and sentenced As a War criminal. And there were others such As the commander of the army North. He was in charge of the so called Fin Mark As they called Fin land. He forced the finns to evacuate their Homes which the germans burned. Those who resisted were shot. The commander of this operation was found guilty of War crimes at the Nuernberg  the americans were slaying in Erbach on the Rhine sunday and were to go to  and is. Avoid on monday. North South Korea Exchange citizen delegations Seoul a North korean artists performed on a South korean stage sat urday for the first time since the countries were divided in 1945, while Long separated family members held tearful reunions in an unprecedented Exchange of civilian visits. The North South Exchange was negotiated by red Cross officials to Mark the 40lh anniversary of the korean Peninsula s liberation from japanese Rule at the end of world War ii. Korea a divided by the victorious Al lies and the communist North fought a bitter War with the South from 1950 to 1953. Since then private citizens have not been allowed to Cross the Border and More than 10 million family members Are said to have been separated. Saturday s performance of Folk songs and dances was held at the 1,500-scat National theater. It was packed by leading South koreans including Many Cabinet ministers opposition Leader Lee min woo businessmen artists newspaper publishers and  performance followed reunions involving 15 of the 50 North koreans who came to look for relatives they had t seen in 3 5 to 40 years. The emotional reunions took place in a Large dining Hall at a Plush resort hotel on the Eastern outskirts of Seoul where the North koreans were staying. Similar reunions took place simultaneously in Pyongyang the North korean Cap ital where South koreans were visiting under the Exchange program. The official North korean Central news Agency in a dispatch monitored in Tokyo said 20 members of the South korean group were having pm Lional reunions with i hair families and  it said the place of reunion is Over flowing with warm Kindred sentiments. They arc conversing with each other in Quiring after the Kin whom they had longed to see for dozens of years never forgetting them even for a  under an agreement reached last May in Seoul each Side sent a 151-Membcr delegation to the other Side for a three night stay. Both delegations consisted of 50 members of separated families 50 Folk Art perform ers 30 journalists 20 support personnel and the head of each country s red Cross organization. Of the 50 visiting North koreans 30 had been told by inc South that their parents Brothers Sisters or other relatives had been located and meetings arranged. However Only 15 met with their family members in the dining room. North korean officials said the others did not wish to meet relatives in front of Many other people and planned later meetings. Separated since the 1950-53 korean War a photo i father from South Korea is tearfully reunited with his sons in Pyongyang North Korex