German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the ...

On this day in 1985, Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a little speech.The visit was intended to ...

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan intended to visit the military cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, and implicitly honor members of the SS who were buried there. Enter Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust ...

Wiesel knew that later that month Reagan was scheduled to visit Germany’s Military Cemetery at Bitburg, where 47 former Nazi SS troops were buried, to join then German Chancellor Kohl in laying ...

And finally there are the lies told in the following decades because they were convenient. “They were victims,” President Ronald Reagan said in 1985 of the Wehrmacht soldiers buried at Bitburg ...

Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago Monday. Its lies still imprison us today. It was with lies about work abroad that the Nazis persuaded the Jews of Europe to get on the trains, and it was with lies ...

“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 ...

PETER HITCHENS: The SS veteran who proved that war is never a simple battle of good versus evil. By PETER HITCHENS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. Published: 17:00 EDT, 30 September 2023 | Updated: 18:55 ...

Ceremonies marking the 37th anniversary of Israel’s independence were marked in Allentown yesterday by several references to President Reagan’s impending visit to Germany, specifically … ...

To the Editor:I too am aghast to see my hero, President Reagan, insist on visiting the German Bitburg Cemetery (SS troopers or not) but I am just as opposed to his visit to Bergen-Belsen ...

But the reconciliation theme he has chosen for his European trip continues to be dogged by his plan to lay a wreath at Bitburg cemetery, where SS troopers are […] Skip to content All Sections ...