Article: Germans, Jews Join to Hash Out Holocaust Legacy


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11-29-1996
Germans, Jews Join to Hash Out Holocaust Legacy.

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WASHINGTON -- A dialogue between Germans and American Jews is full of strange moments.

An American Jewish professor and a German academic discover over lunch that their fathers were at the Theresienstadt concentration camp on the same day during World War II -- one as a prisoner, the other as a German soldier.

An American Jew, Richard Schifter, tells of standing in a long line of Jewish immigrants in Austria in November 1938, being hit by an SS man -- and then returning to Europe in October 1944 as an American soldier. Mr. Schifter, now a special assistant to President Clinton, criticizes today's Germany for its ...

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