GERMANY: NEPHEW OF FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY CRITICISES GERMANY'S REACTIONS TO RISING NEO-NAZI TERROR

Record ID: 500777

  • Title: GERMANY: NEPHEW OF FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY CRITICISES GERMANY'S REACTIONS TO RISING NEO-NAZI TERROR
  • Date: 2nd December 1992
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (DECEMBER 2, 1992) (REUTERS) GV KENNEDY ARRIVING AT SCHOENEBERG TOWN HALL GV/SVS KENNEDY LAYING WREATH BY PLAQUE OF J.F. KENNEDY (6 SHOTS) SV KENNEDY SPEECH ABOUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY (ENGLISH) (2 SHOTS) SACHSENHAUSEN, GERMANY (DECEMBER 2, 1992) (REUTERS) SV PAN/CU/SV GATES OF CONCENTRATION CAMP/ KENNEDY TOURING THE CAMP (3 SHOTS) GV PAN KENNEDY LOOKING AT MEMORIAL STONE SV/GV PULL BACK TO LONG VIEW KENNEDY TOURING CAMP WITH SURVIVORS (2 SHOTS) SV KENNEDY PLACES WREATH ON MEMORIAL TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 3 - KENNEDY: "I KNOW THAT MY UNCLE PRESIDENT KENNEDY WOULD BE LOOKING DOWN ON US TODAY AND INSTEAD OF USING THE WORDS HE USED SO MANY YEARS AGO WHEN HE CAME HERE HIMSELF WHEN HE SAID "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER." I THINK TODAY HE WOULD SAY "ICH BIN EIN AUSLANDER" " Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 17th December 1992 12:00
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  • Location: BERLIN AND SACHSENHAUSEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Crime,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ABBBMFQ6758S65UL0SIU2QNR
  • Story Text: The nephew of former United States (U.S.) President John F. Kennedy criticised Germany's reaction to rising neo-Nazi terror in a speech to the citizens of Berlin on Wednesday (December 2).
    Massachusetts Democrat Joseph P. Kennedy returned to the scene of his uncle's greatest Cold War speech at Schoeneberg City Hall, as part of a three-day visit aimed at denouncing the growing trend of racist violence in Germany.
    In the speech, in which he addressed over one million people, Joseph Kennedy said that he had come to Berlin because of the U.S.
    television coverage of racist attacks. He said it was the "ugly scope of hatred that has invaded our living rooms" that had brought him to Berlin.
    In contrast to his uncle's 1963 speech about being a "Berliner" Joseph Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Auslander" (I am a foreigner).
    His remarks reflected the changes that have taken place since the former president's speech in which he offered moral support to West Berliners when they were encircled by Soviet troops.
    Joseph P. Kennedy is the son of the late U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. In addition to his speech and wreath laying ceremony at the Schoeneberg city hall, Kennedy visited a former Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen.
    Kennedy has joined the growing chorus of foreign criticism of the German government's belated efforts to halt the violence. There have been nearly 2,000 documented attacks this year, including 16 deaths.
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