Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany said Wednesday that he would support a suggestion of the country’s Jewish community to include a declaration on Germany’s Nazi past in a preamble to a treaty on Germany’s reunification.
The chancellor’s spokesman, Hans Klein, said the declaration will underline united Germany’s responsibility for its Nazi past.
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