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THE JEWISH NEW
THIS ISSUE 50c
SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
MAY 3, 19E
A Bitburg Response
BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
Michigan veterans will hold
a memorial meeting
Sunday, the day of
Reagan's cemetery visit.
A public rally in memory of allied
soldiers and Holocaust victims of
World War II will be staged by Michi-
gan veterans groups in downtown De-
troit on Sunday — the day President
Ronald Reagan will visit a German
military cemetery in Bitburg, West
Germany.
"It's a memorial, not a protest of
any kind," explained All Rose, Michi-
gan Department commander of the
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
However, Rose added, "It is the same
day our esteemed President will be at
Bitburg honoring the guys who killed
so many Jewish people — the SS
troopers and the rest of those mamsers
(bastards)."
Officially, the Sunday program
has the same purpose as President
Reagan's controversial cemetery visit
— "to honor the victims and heroes of
World War II while calling for a recon-
ciliation with the post-war German
generation." But Rose, a combat vete-
ran who was wounded in Europe, and
other veterans' leaders are angered by
Reagan's visit to a German cemetery
which includes the graves of Waffen
SS troops. The SS led the killing
squads which murdered Jewish civi-
lians or rounded them up for the con-
centration camps.
Jack Schwartz, president of the
Allied Veterans Council of Wayne
County, said more than 20 organiza-
tions in the Council represent 80,000
veterans in the area and 400,000 in
Michigan. The veterans and the public
have been invited to the 1 p.m. rally at
the Veterans Memorial Building. Par-
ticipating groups include the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, American Legion,
AmVets, Catholic War Veterans, JWV
and Paralyzed War Veterans of
America.
The organizers are trying to ar-
range for a military band and honor
guard at the program. Speakers in-
clude Rev. James Lyons of the Ecu-
menical Institute for Jewish-
Christian Studies, Sister Carol Ritt-
ner of Mercy College, and Robert Ar-
cand of the Greater Detroit Round
Table of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews (NCCJ).
"We are joining with some other
folks," Arcand told The Jewish News,
"to register our concern and, frankly,
our disagreement with the President's
visit to Bitburg."Arcand said it was
not appropriate for the President of the
United States "to honor the perpet-
rators of the Holocaust," to go to Bit-
burg even for 15 minutes instead of
other German cemeteries and to link
the Waffen SS with victims of the
Holocaust.
Arcand said Sunday's memorial
meeting in Detroit would reinforce the
national protests sent to Reagan. The
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