THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 Friday, October 15, 1982
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When Arik Sharon's
planes and big guns bombed
and shelled west Beirut to
the great anguish and anger
of most of the world's news
media, many of the West
German newspapers joined
in the anti-Israel chorus of
condemnation.
There was a special
thrust to much of the Ger-
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man press reaction — an
attitude that Israel's ruth-
less use of force and disre-
gard of civilian safety had
destroyed the Jewish claim
to moral superiority and
had put the Jews on the
same level as Germans still
trying to forget the history
of the Nazi era.
Some editorial comment
went so far as to imply that
Israeli guilt in Lebanon was
on a par with Nazi guilt in
the Holocaust and that,
therefore, the German
people were no longer under
any moral obligation to the
Jews and the state of Israel.
There was, in some of
the press comments, an
underlying but detecta-
ble current of satisfac-
tion, a malicious gloating
over Israel's troubles; the
Germans describe this
feeling as "schaden-
freude." Not all the Ger-
man papers took that
position, but many did.
It remains for a veteran
diplomat, Germany's first
ambassador to Israel, to
take his fellow Germans to
task and to condemn as "in-
decent" the odious compari-
sons being made between
Nazis and Israelis.
As Israel's foreign minis-
ter in 1965, Golda Meir had
vehemently objected to the
German government's de-
signation of Rolf Pauls as its
first ambassador to the
Jewish state although
Pauls, who had served in
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the German army and had
lost an arm, had never been
a member of the Nazi Party.
She wanted an ambassador
without a war record.
When Bonn insisted on
Pauls, she was certain, she
reported a decade later in
her autobiography, that
demonstrations against
him would force his recall.
But he remained at his post
and, in her words, "is still
one of Israel's staunchest
and best friends."
Pauls served in Israel
for three years. His last
official act there was to
order removal of the pro-
tective barriers around
the German Embassy as
an evidence of his belief
in the strength of the
German-Israeli relation-
ship.
Now, writing in Das Par-
liament, one of the most
prestigious of German pub-
lications, Dr. Pauls takes
his countrymen to task for
their failure to remember
their dual debt to the
Jewish people and Israel
and to castigate those who
would liken the Israeli
forces in Lebanon to the
Nazis.
The diplomat speaks not
only of Germany's obliga-
tions to the Jews for what it
inflicted on them during
the Hitler era but of a spe-
cial obligation; the West
German Republic was ac-
cepted in the comity of na-
tions, he says, only after Is-
rael and the Jews had paved
the way for its return
through the Luxembourg
reparations and restitution
accords.
Restitution, he made it _
clear, did not absolve the
Germans of the guilt they
carried. "The German word
for the reparations agree-
ment was a euphemism for
which there was no possible
justification," he wrote,
"Wiedergutmachung, liter-
ally: making it good."
"Nothing could be
made good," he stressed.
"The dead cannot be
brought back to life. But
reparations were paid,
and continue to be paid,
in the coin in which repa-
rations can but be paid
... Reparations were
paid in collective shame
and awareness of histori-
cal and moral responsi-
bility from which there
was no escape. Repara-
tions inevitably entail a
backward glance.
"On this occasion," he
pointed out, "they paved the
way for a step forward al-
though there was and is no
way in which they could
lead to forgiveness by those
who suffered so inex-
pressibly, let alone to make
them forget.
"What they did was to
pave the way for Germany
to be readmitted to the
community of nations. Had
it not been for the Luxem-
bourg treaty with 1.:_,rael, for
the agreement with the
Jewish Claims Conference
and for the legislation gov-
erning individual repara-
tions, the Federal Republic
of Germany would have had
a hard time of it. Politically,
it would never have got a
foot on the ground in the
United States and it would
never have managed to play
such an active part in Euro-
pean affairs either," he
wrote.
Germans have discussed
for decades coming to terms
with the past, Dr. Pauls
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