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Most of them would agree with Chan- cellor Helmut Kohl that the German people had been de- ceived and misled by Adolf Hit- ler into passive acquiescence in the commission of a crime of horrendous proportions, that the postwar generation of Germans had acknowledged the guilt of their parents, had made retribution to the Jewish people and while they should never forget the crimes com- mitted in the name of the Ger- man people, they should not have to bear a continued collec- tive guilt. In Chancellor Kohl's view, the Holocaust was the work of a relative few who imposed their will on a nation most of whom were uaware of the crimes being committed, and, in any case, were helpless to resist. In planning for museums of German history now in process of being estab- lished, Kohl is said to favor the revisionist school of historians who argue that the Holocaust was an aberration of history such as has happened often in the past and in many lands. A small number, almost entirely neo-Nazis, still influ- enced by the Nazi racial theories, deny the salient facts of the Holocaust and the mur- der of six million Jews. The re- visionist school of historians whom the chancellor seems to favor, who would minimize the Holocaust by categorizing it as but one of a long series of mon- strous crimes against human- ity at all periods in the world's history, as the Stalinist exter- mination of the kulaks in the Soviet Union, appears to be gaining wide audiences. TEL-TWELVE MALL • 12 MILE & TELEGRAPH • SOUTHFIELD HOURS: DAILY 10-9 • SUNDAY 12-5 • 354-9060 FINE FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES ALWAYS 20% OFF. 44 Friday, January 9, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Books and articles expound- ing this view of history in- creased in number over the past year and engendered heated debate between those who go back to Attila the Hun to make their point that mass murder and genocide is com- monplace in the history of man and that the Holocaust was not a unique crime but one in an inevitable historical series. This view is rejected by West Germany's President Richard von Weizsacker, a German nobleman and son of a con- victed war criminal, who has emerged as the moral con- science of the German people. Von Weizsacker rejects the concept of collective guilt but faults Germans for shunning their responsibility by looking away and keeping quiet when President Chaim Herzog. the Nazis pursued the exter- mination of the Jews. The Germans of today can- not be blamed for the sins of their fathers, he declares, but they must accept the past be- cause anyone who refused to remember its inhumanity, is prone to risks of new infection. The German leader stressed the theme of remembrance again in a message to the dedi- cation in December of an in- ternational youth center in Oswiecim, Poland, within a mile of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. The cen- ter was built with German funds at the initiative of the German Protestant group, Ac- tion for a Symbol of Atone- ment. The Von Weizsacker posi- tion is strongly supported by those who have led the fight to make the study of contempor- ary history an academic disci- pline in West Germany. Today, nearly every German univer- sity has a chair in contempor- ary German history and histo- rians are zealously conducting research into every aspect of the Nazi regime. There is, without any doubt, a continuing preoccupation with the German-Jewish rela- tionship all through German history, in the Nazi era and to- day. It is evidenced in the amount of space given in the media to questions concerning Jews, to the quick and heated reaction to the theses advanced by the revisionists and in the special concern with which Jewish issues are generally treated. The effort to bring wider understanding of the German-Jewish relationship through the centuries was demonstrated in Berlin when Mayor Eberhard Diepgen dedicated the famed Martin Gropius Building as the home of the Jewish department of the Berlin Museum 48 years after the Nazis looted and pil- laged the Jewish Museum in Berlin and closed it down. The purpose of the Jewish exhibit, the mayor said, was to make the Jewish contribution to the history of Berlin "visible and clear."