German embassy invites Israeli officers to ceremony honouring Third Reich soldiers

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The German embassy in Tel Aviv has adopted a novel approach to atoning for Nazi crimes by inviting Israeli army officers to attend a ceremony in honour of the Third Reich's fallen soldiers, including SS units.
The German military attaché compounded the blunder as he tried to defend the invitations by saying that some SS soldiers were victims not criminals, and that the dead should not be divided into good and bad.

While such views might be the subject of debate elsewhere, they have been taken as insensitive, at best, coming from a German soldier posted to a country of Holocaust survivors and relatives of the murdered.

The ceremony is to be held next month at a cemetery in Nazareth for Germany's first world war dead. The military attaché, Colonel Ernst Elbers, dispatched a number of invitations to Israeli reserve army officers who are involved in research into the 1914-18 war.

They initially assumed the ceremony was limited to remembering those who died in that conflict and were horrified to discover that the memorial will be to "honour the memory of the fallen and missing servicemen in both world wars".