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necessary when I watched the
Bitburg visit."
Wiesel added that the visit was
"totally unnecessary. It could
have been a beginning of a new
era of reconciliation in the truest
sense of the word. There was no
need to have it there. The same
words could have been spoken
elsewhere with the same ges-
tures, and even the same results. I
would say with better results."
Simon Wiesenthal, the
Vienna-based Nazi hunter, said
on the CBS TV Face the Nation
program that he had been asked
to accompany Reagan to
Bergen-Belsen but had refused, as
had all other Jews who had been
– invited.
"You cannot neutralize going to
> concentration camps, a cemetery,
then in the same day going to a
cemetery with SS," he said.
Wiesenthal said the German
people "absolutely don't need"
this type of simple reconciliation.
He said 60 percent of today's
Germans were born after World
War II and ten percent were chil-
dren during the war. "In no coun-
try is the distance between the
young and the old generations so
big like in Germany," he said.
He explained that most young
Germans know "their fathers and
grandfathers are guilty. They
shame for this."
Former West German Chancel-
lor Helmut Schmidt, on the ABC
program, said the visit to Bitburg
was a mistake which he blamed
on the German government. He
said Reagan and Chancellor Hel-
• mut Kohl could have honored the
dead in Bonn.
In Israel, President Chaim Her-
zog declared that there can be no
reconciliation with history; les-
sons must be learned from it.
Premier Shimon Peres, ad-
dressing a special session of the
Knesset convened to mark the
40th anniversary of the defeat of
Nazi Germany, said Israel noted
with "deep sorrow and pain" the
"painful mistake" by the
President of the United States.
But, Peres added, he regards
• President Reagan as a true friend
of the Jewish people and of Israel.
Hatred, he said, should not be an-
swered by hatred "but death can-
not obliterate the difference be-
tween those buried as murderers
and those buried as the murder
victims . . . no monument can
bridge the abyssmal gap between
those who led to murder and those
who died in the murder."
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin spoke in much the same
vein when he unveiled a monu-
ment at the Heroes and Martyrs
Memorial at the Yad Vashem be-
fore an audience of 3,000. There
can be "no reconciliation, not with
Nazism, and not with the Nazis,"
Rabin declared. "The American
President's historic mistake was
to equate the murderers and their
victims. He can never be forgiven
for that equation — neither by
progressive mankind nor by the
Jewish people."
In a radio interview, Deputy
Premier and Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir, the leader of
Likud, said Reagan had made "a
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