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West German Chancellor Adenauer’s chief of staff, Hans Globke, had played a central role in the drafting and enforcement of the infamous Nuremburg Laws and the extermination of the German Jews. Of the 160 top officers in the West German army in 1961 all but one had been a colonel..

the german reparations question

With the in both countries opposed to reparations only 34 percent of German public believed that Germany owed Jews anything at all, and 21 percent still believed that Jews themselves were responsible for what had happened to them during Holocaust secret negotiations began between Germany..

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