The World - News from Nov. 15, 1988
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl coupled a ringing denunciation of the Holocaust with a defense of the Speaker of his nation’s Parliament, who resigned last week because of international outrage over remarks that praised Adolf Hitler for creating “an atmosphere of optimism” in Germany in the 1930s. Kohl said Philipp Jenninger “has always taken a particular and personal interest in bringing about reconciliation with the Jews and in helping to safeguard the vital interests of the state of Israel.” Kohl called the Nazi Holocaust a “crime of genocide (that) is without parallel in its cold-blooded, inhuman planning and its deadly efficiency.” He spoke at a banquet in New York honoring Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
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