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Article: EAST BERLIN ASKS JEWS TO FORGIVE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1990
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Byline: Marc Fisher Washington Post
East Germany's first democratic government began its work Thursday by trying to heal the past and seal the future, asking Jews and the Soviet Union to forgive East Germans for their role in Nazi atrocities and pushing to achieve economic and social unification with West Germany by July 1.
In a rapid-fire series of resolutions, the new parliament assured Poland that its border with East Germany is inviolable, demanded that the new Germany maintain East Germany's constitutional guarantees of work and housing, and agreed that a united Germany should join NATO, but only if the alliance changes its nuclear strategy.