"nd.DerTag": To Berlin! - Comment on the Ausladungspolitik of the Federal Foreign Office on commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation

"We have to face the past time and time again," says Mayor Dagmar Liste-Frinker (Greens). To learn from her, so that she doesn't repeat herself.

Does anyone else remember the song "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" by the American punk band Ramones? A protest against Ronald Reagan's visit to a soldier's cemetery in Rhineland-Palatinate. Helmut Kohl had invited the then US president to honour buried war victims there, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, as a gesture of reconciliation. Among the dead there, however, not a single GI, only Wehrmacht soldiers - and SS-Ang

nd.DerTag / nd.DieWoche [Newsroom]Berlin (ots) - Does anyone else remember the song "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" by the American punk band Ramones? A protest against Ronald Reagan's visit to a soldier's cemetery in Rhineland-Palatinate. The then US president was from ... Continue reading here...Original content of: nd.DerTag / nd.DieWoche, transmitted by news aktuell