German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder plans to discuss Germany’s national identity with a writer who once said it was time to stop invoking the Holocaust to criticize Germany. The Central Council of Jews in Germany said it is “irritated and bewildered” by Schroeder’s decision to talk publicly with Martin Walser on Wednesday, the 57th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies.
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