European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Franz. Hotel Strauss we have to end the attempt to limit German history to the 12 years of  Bavaria s Strauss campaigns for Germany s emergence from third Reich by James m. Markham new York Elmea it is the refrain that touches off he stories applause. Hunkered behind a podium in the Southern town of aug Gen Franz Josef Strau Scalls upon his compatriots to come out of in shadows of the third Reich and be proud to be germans again. We have to end the attempt to limit German history to lha 12 years of Hitler the representation of German history As an endless path of germans mistakes and crimes criminalizing the germans the Premier of Bavaria declared. We must emerge from the dismal third Reich and become a Normal nation  the emphatic assertion of a German National identity comes naturally to the combative Strauss in an election Campaign lacking great suspense one of the most consequential riddles is whether the constr alive 71-year-old bavarian s Uncertain ambitions will carry  to Bonn As vice Chancellor and As a political Bull m o China shop after the Vole Jan. 25 several thousand Black Forest vintners and Farmers Sal up straight on their Tippy wooden benches and clapped cheered and shouted As Strauss in his recent speech in aug Gen plunged Forward with his message of patriotic renewal the historical truth shows that germans in monstrous numbers committed terrible crimes and whoever denies this has lost his connection with reality Bui it would be the same loss of reality to say that the germans and their allies did not suffer horrible crimes at the end of the War and alter it to fulfil its Vita role As a sell confident democracy at the heart of the North Atlantic Kiealy organization Sirauss contended West Germany needs a Sling National identity and an end to the blockade of its return to historical Normal try we Don t want any totally Tana Lical nationalists and nothing like a nation of Youthful fanatical Naiki arsts he cried. But instead of a nation of 60 million Lana Licat nationalists we Don t want a nation of 60 million nihilists " aug Gen s Roomy agricultural Wihib Tion Hall Tio Mcd with applause his toes and Strauss k a Man some gormar.5 Jove wednesday. January 21, 19b7 of 111. Photo Strausa Donsie Dent bavarian feathered text hat during a traditional annual Parade in Munich to hate ominously suggest that if he does go to Bonn he will give Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Center right coalition a Sharp shove to the right reviving the spirit of the cold War in foreign affairs and cracking Down sharply on dissenters at Home. Hard line statements prompted Kohl to declare that an election Victory for this coalition would not mean a rightward shift. We were concerned said an aide to the Chancellor that certain things said in the heal of the Campaign might have clouded our policies. We did t want Here to be any doubt about this outside the country  it i an open secret that Strauss who in the 1950s and 60s was variously minister for nuclear Power finance and defense would dearly like to Crown his Long career by becoming foreign minister. But this is a Job that Hans Dietrich Genscher has held since 1974 Genscher s free democratic parly has made it Clear that retaining the foreign ministry is a condition for remaining As Junior Parner in the coalition. One Chance Lor Sirauss would be that the governing Christian democrats would win a Clear majority of seats in the bundestag a Prospect that in an interview he called unlikely but not altogether impossible. Another would be that the free democrats do so poorly in the Jan. 25 voting that their claim to the foreign ministry would become untenable. Yet Straus has such a polarizing effect on the voters that the More he rails at the free democrats the higher they seem to jump in the opinion polls. The Prospect of Strauss becoming foreign minister makes certain germans determined to vote for Genscher s party. Conversing on the Way to aug Gen Strauss said thai he had not yet decided whether to leave Munich for Bonn after the election which he predicted the coalition partners would win with 55 percent of the popular Vole. And even if it had been decided i would t say so he joked. But he hinted that he was thinking about Bonn by suggesting that the Christian social Union the rightist bavarian sister organization of the Christian democratic party could run its affairs without his being in Munich. One cannot think that one is indispensable he said. He softened an accusation made in campaigning that the free democrats were an unreliable partner saying this applied mainly to the area of internal Security where they have based at a proposal for granting pardons to terrorists who turn state s evidence and we have never understood what Gersther Means when he talks about a new phase of Delesle " Sirauss added. Asked about his forceful summons for a new Gorman identity. Strauss said that Bonn s  should nave1 the biggest interest in a self reliant West Germany. He added that Bonn must be ready to take Over a cerium measure of global political responsibly in keeping with am incan demands to do so. The stars and strikes Page 13