ロナルド・レーガン - Wikipedia
レーガンは、西ドイツへの公式訪問で1985年に広く非難された。4月11日にホワイトハウスは、レーガンが両方の世界大戦で死んだドイツの兵士に敬意を表して献花するためにビットブルクの軍事墓地を訪れると発表した。その墓地に武装親衛隊員が埋葬されていることが論争の的になった。様々な地域からの抗議にもかかわらず、それが元敵との間の和解を促進するという理由で、レーガンは訪問を続けた。 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/moleskin/20050427/p2
1985年4月11日。
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123周日記念日。
On April 11, 1985, then White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes informed the media of the planned visit to Bitburg. When asked who was buried at Kolmeshöhe, Speakes said he thought both American and German soldiers were there. Reporters soon discovered that no American servicemen were in the cemetery (in fact, the remains of all U.S. soldiers had long since been removed from German soil) and that Waffen-SS graves were located close to the proposed ceremony. When questioned, Bitburg Mayor Theo Hallet pointed out, all German military cemeteries were likely to contain at least a few SS graves. Such distinctions, though, failed to placate those who were opposed to Reagan's visit on moral and political grounds. Decorations and memorials on the Waffen-SS graves were removed just prior to Reagan's visit, and replaced right after.[1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitburg_controversy_(1985)
