Volume 41, Number 20 · December 1, 1994
Kohl's Germany: The Beginning of the End?
By Timothy Garton Ash
Taking a break from Germany's rather boring election campaign, I dropped in to the fine new museums that have recently been opened in Bonn. Right at the beginning of the permanent exhibition in the splendid new Museum of the History of the Federal Republic I found a strange black pavilion with, inside, pictures from the Nazi extermination camps. A young German guide was just explaining to a group of visitors that there had been a vigorous debate about whether to show these horrifying pictures. The conclusion, he said, was that 'a German museum could not afford not to show these pictures.'
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