After attending a G-7 summit meeting in Bonn, in what was then West Germany, President Ronald Reagan on this day in 1985 made an eight-minute visit to the German war cemetery in Bitburg. Helmut ...

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A majority in the House of Representatives, saying that President Reagan’s planned visit to a German military cemetery “threatens to have long and serious repercussions in the United States ...

During this episode, Reagan’s frustration with Jews speaking out against his visit to the Bitburg cemetery was unmistakable. “They [the press] are really sucking blood & finding every person ...

Mass Gathering Urged at Bitburg Cemetery Gates During Reagan’s Visit Rosensaft: ‘perhaps then He Wil. April 23, 1985. See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date Advertisement.

What the Bitburg cemetery affair has done to Ronald Reagan`s credibility is the least important aspect of the matter. The serious question is what harm all the blundering, ignorance and moral ...

As the seven-nation economic summit began Thursday, President Reagan got a pat on the back from his German hosts but a rebuff in his campaign for new trade talks and faster economic growth in other… ...

Kohl mentioned Bitburg as a likely site for a similar ceremony with Reagan. The President agreed with the idea in principle, while not committing himself to any particular cemetery.

Despite the eloquent plea of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, President Reagan declined Friday to cancel plans to visit a German military cemetery that holds the remains of some SS troopers.The ...

“They were victims,” President Ronald Reagan said in 1985 of the Wehrmacht soldiers buried at Bitburg cemetery, where he intended to visit, “just as surely as the victims in the ...

With so much attention having been lavished on last week’s 70 th anniversary of VE Day, another anniversary, also connected to World War II, passed virtually unnoticed. May 5 marked 30 years ...

President Reagan, who this morning is to visit a German military cemetery where 49 members of Hitler’s elite Waffen SS are buried, was to declare “this should be a time for healing,&#82… ...