Germans open the pages to reveal a censored past

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The approach taken by German history books to the Second World War has changed over recent decades. Latest books seek to address difficult issues directly, dealing with how terrible crimes could have been committed and how ordinary people could have allowed the atrocities of the war to take place. The careful distance from the subject which was maintained even into the 1980s has been broken down, and new teaching material for schools encourages pupils to unearth the buried past.

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Germans see echo of past in Yugoslavia

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German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinke meets Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in Zagreb on May 14, 1993. Germany supported Croatia in 1991 and 1992. Mr Kinkel believes more pressure should be put on Belgrade. Constitutional problems prevent Germany from sending its forces on UN military operations. Some Germans feel Germany's support of Croatia and Slovenia is a repetition of old alliances. British officials think it is naive.

Germany, Croatia, Military aspects, Yugoslavia, German foreign relations, Croatian foreign relations

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Germans own up to horrors committed on Eastern Front

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A new exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, finally shatters the myth that the soldiers in the Wehrmacht who fought on the Eastern Front were innocent of any atrocities. Germany is now starting to admit that the Wehrmacht undertook a war of destruction against Jews, ordinary civilians and prisoners of war, leading to millions of deaths. The exhibition is designed to show that there was no such thing as a 'clean Wehrmacht.'

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