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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1988
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.Key Gennan official
guits after furor over
J(ristallnacht speech
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany - The
president of parliament resigned
today after being bitterly a,ttacked
for saying on the 50th anniversary
of Kristallnacht that many Germans initially found Hitler's rule
"glorious."
The furor overshadowed West
Germany's carefully organized ceremonies marking Kristallnacht, the
night of terror against the Jews that
signaled the start of the Holocaust.
Parliament President Philipp
Jenninger announced he was step. ping down as assembly leader after
meeting with other top-ranked
members of the governing Christian Democratic Union.
The conservative politician's
speech Thursday, which also called
the early years of the Nazi's Third
Reich a "triumphal procession,"
set off waves of outcries throughout the country and abroad.
· His speech, at a special session of
the Bundestag, or parliament, triggered a walkout by about 50 lawmakers and calls for his resignation from opposition Greens and
Social Democrattc parties.
"My speech was not understood
by many listeners the way I had intended it to be," the. ,56-year-old
politician said in ·a written statement to the news media. "I am
deeply sorry and I am very hurt, if I
have offended the feelings of others."
He added: "During my whole political career - most recently as
president of the German Parliament - I have been active in working for reconciliation with the Jews
and for the vital interests of the
state of Israel."
"I always have been an uncompromising foe of every type of totalitarian rule," Jenninger said .
Jenninger said he was stepping
down as Bundestag president because he wanted to avoid any damage to the office itself and because
he believed he lost the trust of
many colleagues.
The statement did not say whether Jenninger would remain a member of Parliament.
Jenninger had been the No. 2
West German official after President Richard von Weizsaecker, under the nation's rules of diplomatic
protocal.
A member of Chancellor Helmut
Kohl's Christian Democratics, Jen-
AP PHOTO
Philipp Jenninger said many
Germans initially found Hitler's
rule "glorious."
I
ninger has been a lawmaker since
1969 and was one of Kohl's closest
aides before he was elected Bundestag president in November
1984.
In his speech Thursday, Jenninger talked at length about the
positive feelings of many ordinary ; Germans early in the Hitler dictatorship.
"Didn't Hitler bring to reality
what (Kaiser) Wilhelm II had only
promised, that is to lead the Germans to glorious times?" Jenninger
asked.
'
"Wasn't he chosen by Providence, a Fuehrer such as is given to
a people only once in a thousand
years?" he continued.
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Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection
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Termaat, Adriana B. (Schuurman)
Termaat, Peter N.
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Collection contains genealogical, personal, and family papers and photographs documenting the lives and interests of Adriana and Peter Termaat. The bulk of the materials are related to family history and genealogical research carried out by the Termaats, including research notes and materials about places in the Netherlands that were significant to the Termaat and Schuurman families, such as the city of Alkmaar.
Other materials in the collection are related to the Termaats' experiences on the eve of and during the Second World War, especially the German occupation of the Netherlands and the Termaats' participation in organized resistance to the Nazis. Also included are materials that document the family's post-war life in the United States, including their public efforts to recognize, commemorate, and honor people and events significant to World War II.
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1869 - 2012
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Netherlands
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands
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1988-11-11
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Key German official quits after furor over Kristallnacht speech
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Associated Press article about the West German Parliamentary President, Philipp Jenninger's resignation following his comments praising the Nazi Third Reich.
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Jenninger, Philip
Third Reich, 1933-1945
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Kristallnacht, 1938 -- Anniversaries
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