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1.

ZOA PRESIDENTIAL MISSION TO ISRAEL

June 13-27, 1985

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The German military cemetery at Bitburg.

President Reagan, defend-
ing his planned' visit to the
cemetery, said last week that
most of the 2,000 soldiers
buried there were 18-year-
boys conscripted into the army
and they were victims just as
surely as the victims of the
concentration camps."
The President, who made
his remarks in response to
questions at a White House
meeting with a group of
editors and publishers, said he
would not cancel his visit to
the cemetery because it would
then appear that he had
"caved in" to pressure.
"I think that it would be
very harmful and all it would
do is leave it looking as if I
caved in in the face of some
unfavorable attention," Re-
agan told the group. Criticism
of the plan to lay a wreath at
the cemetery increased follow-
ing the cancellation of a proj-
ected visit to the site of the
Dachau concentration camp.
Reagan repeated last week,
in response to questions, that
cancellation of the Dachau
visit was the result of a mis-
understanding. He said he had
been under the impression
that an individual rather than
the West German government
had suggested it. But when
Chancellor Helmut Kohl in-
formed him otherwise, the
cancellation was reversed, he
said.
In New York, Zionist
Organization of America
President Alleck A. Resnick
conveyed the organization's
"deep distress" and "sense of
outrage" at Reagan's compari-
son of concentration camp vic-
tims and soldiers who fought
under Hitler. "We deeply re-
gret the President's seeming
inability to understand either
the insensitivity: ;tit the naiv-
ete of his remarks," said Re-
snick. "We ask for nothing

more and nothing less than for
the President to right what is
seen as an immoral outrage by
correcting his statements and
altering his itinerary in West
Germany."
In a cable to the President
concerning his decision to visit
the cemetery, Resnick stated
that "the ZOA is in favor of
reconciliation among all
peoples . . . however we are
opposed to any action which
would seem to sweep the
memory and awareness of the
Holocaust and the world's in-
difference to the fate of six mil-
lion Jews into the dustbin of
history."
In a statement issued Mon-
day, Henry Siegman, execu-
tive director of the American
Jewish Congress, said, "The
President's personal goodwill,
which is not in question, can-
not alter the repugnance of the
symbolism of his visit to the
German cemetery. He only
hurts his case, and adds insult
to injury, by comparing the al-
leged victimization of German
soldiers with that of the tragic
inmates of Nazi concentration
camps.
"The President would be
well advised both morally and
politically to tell the American
people that upon reflection he
has made a terrible mistake
and is man enough to undo it."
Samuel Greenberg, na-
tional commander of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
U.S.A., said this week that he
is urging all American vete-
rans to initiate a memorial or
commemorative service at
local veterans' cemeteries or
war memorials on May 5, the
day the President is scheduled
to visit the cemetery.
"We must remember our fal-
len comrades," Greenberg
said, "who preciously paid for
victories over the fascist ar-
chitects of death."

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