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In another front-page editorial, La Stampa criticized the new German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for canceling the Nov. 8 commemoration in France of World War I. The paper said it is understandable that Schröder's generation should want to lift from itself blame that doesn't belong to it.
George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
The paper said that Germans marked the event "in an almost gloomy mood, with many Berliners angry at the dominant role played by politicians in the commemoration of what was a popular uprising."
As you will recall, I make a partial exception for certain forms of religious (or civic-religious) commemoration at the very beginning of my chapter on "lessons": "Remembering the Holocaust, especially for Jews, needs no pragmatic justification.
But it added that Germany remains exposed to "the perpetual and human temptation of nationalism" and has a duty to join in the commemoration.