Germany’s chancellor and president were among the country’s top officials attending one of hundreds of ceremonies in the country marking the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The leader of Germany’s Jewish community, Ignatz Bubis, warned that with the return of the German government next year to Berlin some Germans might seek a future unburdened by guilt for the Holocaust. The desire for a return to “normalcy,” he added, cannot mean that Germans “live with a new anti-Semitism and new racism.” The ceremonies in Germany were among many held across Europe to remember the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi thugs ransacked Jewishowned shops and set synagogues ablaze across Germany and Austria.
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