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conscionable travesty of
reality."
Temple Kol Ami Rabbi
Ernst Conrad also criticized
the Bitburg visit, but was not
as harsh in denouncing
Reagan's actions. "I can't con-
demn him. He has been a
friend of our people in many
other ways. Let's leave it at a
mistake in judgment."
Rabbi Conrad, whose
mother and grandmother were
among those killed in the
Holocaust, said he hoped that
the President would change
his mind and cancel the
cemetery visit. "His advisers
did not take into account the
hurt this would cause," the
West Bloomfield rabbi said.
But he'll see the American
public is not going to accept
this."
In Washington, Elie Wiesel,
chairman of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council,
said Sunday that if President
Reagan had responded to his
plea last Friday not to go to
Bitburg, it would have been
seen not as having given in to
"pressure" but as a "human
response to a human plea."
"I think he would have come
out stronger," Wiesel said in
an appearance on the ABC-TV
Issues and Answers program.
He added, "At this point, the
key is in the hands of Chancel-
lor (Helmut) Kohl." He said
Kohl should "release" Reagan
from the President's commit-
ment to lay a wreath at the
cemetery, where some 2,000
German soldiers and 47 mem-
bers of the Waffen SS are
buried.
Reagan did not respond
when Wiesel made an emo-
tional plea to the President at
last Friday's ceremony at
which Wiesel received the
Congressional Gold Medal.
Wiesel said Sunday that an
alternative site could be found
that would be in the spirit of
reconciliation the President is
seeking, and suggested a
prison where Germans who
opposed Hitler had been kil-
led.
In Bonn Tuesday, the Ger-
man government's chief
spokesman, Peter Boenisch,
confirmed that there has been
no change of plans, despite the
fierce anger aroused in the
U.S. over Reagan's trip.
In response to suggestions
in the U.S. that the German
Chancellor ease Reagan's pre-
dicament by proposing a visit
to another site where no Nazis
are known to be buried,
Boenisch said the Chancellor
and the President talked
about the matter by telephone
and decided that they will both
go to Bitburg.
Meanwhile, Alfred Dregger,
chairman of the Bundestag
faction of Kohl's ruling Chris-
tian Democratic Union (CDU)
and its Bavarian coalition
partner, the Christian Social
Union (CSU), has come under
heavy fire for sending letters
to members of the U.S. Senate
defending Reagan's visit to
Bitburg.
Hermann Langbein, secre-
tary of the Committee of Au-
schwitz Survivors, charged
that Dregger's letter amounts
to a defense of the Third Reich
and its now deceased machin-
ery of death. Langbein, who
lives in Vienna, also criticized
Dregger's remark that he was
proud of having defended a
German city against advanc-
ing Russian troops in the final
days of the war.
But Wiesel said Sunday he
feared than by going to the
cemetery, Reagan was "im-
plicitly and unwillingly giving
a signal for the rehabilitation
of the SS." He said he would
not be so anguished if only
German soldiers and not SS
were buried at the cemetery.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Solarz
(D-NY), who appeared on the
television program with
Wiesel, said he would object to
even this since World War II
was not an ordinary war but
against "an evil regime" that
would have imposed "totalita-
rian terror" on the world.
Both Rep. Solarz and Wiesel
said they were especially
upset by Reagan's comment
last Thursday in which he said
the German soldiers buried at
Bitburg were "surely" as much
victims as those who died in
the death camps.
"The victims suffered, the
others caused the suffering,"
Wiesel said. Rep. Solarz, a
member of the Holocaust
Memorial Council, said he
doubted that members of the
council would resign. He said
they have the important task
of building a Holocaust
museum, which Reagan sup-
ports, and "I think if is very
important that this work con-
tinue."
Both Wiesel and Rep. Solarz
stressed that they did not be-
lieve in collective guilt and
favor reconciliation with the
Germany of today. But
Michael Naumann, senior
foreign editor of the West
German newspaper Der
Spiegel, said this reconcilia-
tion already exists. He said it
came with the Marshall Plan
and especially with the Berlin
airlift.