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Envoy Seeks Strong
German-Jewish Ties
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
T
he Bitburg incident
opened the eyes of
Germans to the need
for greater contacts, particu-
- larly between American
Jewish organizations and the
Federal Republic of Germany.
This is the belief of
Gunther Van Well, the West
German Ambassador to the
United States, who spoke to a
Detroit audience Tuesday on
German-Jewish relations.
Van Well called the con-
troversy surrounding
President Reagan's 1985 visit
to the German cemetery,
probably the most painful,
but the most important
events of my period as am-
bassador."
This visit to the cemetery,
the
American
where
"
,
r- atacts between
Germany and
America Jewish
groups began only
in the late 1970s.
president paid tribute to
German civilian war dead
but in which were also inter-
red the bodies of Nazi S.S.
men, was not discussed on an
\__, expert level during its plan-
fling stages, according to Van
Well. There is not a unified
view in Germany as to what
should have been done, but
the incident made clear that
Germans "need to do more to
understand the sentiments
and emotions of Jews, and for
/American Jews to realize
what is the content of our re-
lationship."
German-Jewish relations
occur at three levels, he said:
ties between Christian and
Jewish Germans, between the
\Federal Republic and the
State of Israel, and between
Germany and Jewish groups
outside Germany and Israel,
particularly in the United
States.
Regular contacts between
' American Jewish groups and
West Germany began only in
the late 1970s. In compari-
;the
son, diplomatic relations be-
tween Germany and Israel
ciere established in 1965.
These ties have developed in
,"a most remarkable way," he
explained, including tourism,
;_i=ade and "the most promis-
ing development, increasing
youth exchanges." Three
thousand young Israelis visit
the Federal Republic an-
nually; 6,000 young Germans
come to Israel each year.
These and other contacts
_nay signal a "door opening
for a new common future for
Germans and Israelis," he
stated.
> Within Germany, Van Well
revealed that 25,000 Jews are
registered in 65 local Jewish
\communities. His government
"estimates that there may be
>
an additional 25,000 unaffil-
iated German Jews.
"Germans must not and
will not forget the past," he
declared. "We are studying it,
trying to understand how it
could happen."
When anti-Semitic remarks
surface in West Germany,
they are "published im-
mediately. They are publicly
discussed. Certainly there is
no cover-up. We are deter-
mined not to tolerate such
things."
While 60 to 70 percent of
the German population was
born after the Nazi era, "th-
ose who were born after the
fact should not consider
themselves immune from
criticism. They are not totally
free from the implications of
the past," the ambassador
said, quoting West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
On the election of Kurt
Waldheim to the Austrian
presidency, Van Well said
that the German view is di-
vided. "But there is a unified
conclusion that he is the
elected president and that we
must work from there."
Ambassador Van Well's
appearance was sponsored by
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, Detroit Chapter; Ar-
chdiocese of Detroit; Wayne
State University's Center for
Peace and Conflict Studies
and Department of Romance
and Germanic Languages;
Consul General, Federal Re-
public of Germany; Detroit
Council of World Affairs; and
the Ecumenical Institute for
Jewish-Christian Studies.
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