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Schroeder and the Social Democrats
are sympathetic to Jewish concerns, analyst says.
Friedman, a board member of the
Central
Council of Jews in Germany,
Special to The Jewish News
said he expected Schroeder's new gov-
ernment would continue to be "the
Bonn
locomotive" behind European unity,
ermany wears a new face
would promote democracy in Eastern
today: younger, more liberal
Europe and liberalize Germany's citizen-
and perhaps more cocky
ship laws. "Here, I believe this govern-
than before.
ment will bring much more progress
It is the visage of Gerhard
than the old government did."
Schroeder, 54, who is to take
Friedman, 42, is the son of
Gerhard
over leadership of this nation,
Polish
Jews who survived the
Schroeder
ending 16 years under the con-
war
because
they were on the
(left) was
servative Helmut Kohl, 68.
famous list of Oskar .
elected
Schroeder will preside over next
chancellor of Schindler.
year's move of the government
The decisive victory —
Germany, suc-
from Bonn to Berlin, seeing
Schroeder's
Social Democratic
ceeding
Germany into the 21st century.
Helmut Kohl Party earned 40.9 percent to
In Schroeder, a Social
35.2 for Kohl's Christian
(right).
Derdocrat, Germany has its
Democratic Union — marks
first leader who grew up after
the first time since 1949 that
World War II. But the changing of the an incumbent has been ousted. The
guard does not mean the new genera-
election marked a significant defeat for
tion of leadership has not learned
Kohl's parry in the states that make up
from the past.
the former East Germany, where
"Germany has embedded itself in an
democracy is only 10 years old.
awareness of the crimes of World War
There, the CDU earned barely 27
II, it has impregnated the culture, the
percent, compared to 48 percent in
people, the children with this aware-
1994. The drop is attributed to pro-
ness," said a high-level spokesman at
found disappointment after Kohl's
the U.S. Embassy in Bonn.
promises of a "blooming landscape"
One day after the election, German
following reunification.
Jewish leader Michael Friedman
On the other hand, both the SPD
expressed his firm belief that "the new
and the successor to the Communist
chancellor will understand" that
party, the Party of Democracy (PDS),
Germany must act with consciousness
made significant gains in the former
of "its past role in Europe — which
east. In the former east German state
means two world wars, and which
of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which
means also the Holocaust."
also held state elections Sunday, the
PDS did so well that it might be in a
Toby Axelrod is a writer for New York
position to form a coalition with
Jewish Week, where this article original-
Schroeder's party.
ly was published.
Across the nation, the PDS crossed
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