German Chancellor Helmut Kohl addressed the mostly Jewish student body at Brandeis University’s graduation ceremonies. Kohl said at the Waltham, Mass., ceremony that Germany’s relationship with world Jewry would continue to be influenced by memories of the Holocaust, which he described as an “indelible part of the history of Germany.”
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