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Will Zuzak; MUNTER01.REP = 1993-01-17 letter from Munter; 1993-10-01
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Dear Subscribers:
     In response to your request, I am posting the letter of Mr.
Munter, which elicited the response which I posted earlier today:
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Alex Munter
81 Hewitt Way
Kanata, Ontario
K2L 3R2
January 17, 1993

Dear Mr. Zuzak:

Thank you for your letter of Jan. 9 regarding the federal
government's handling of the war crimes issue in Canada.

It is my belief as a Canadian of German descent that the Canadian
government must deal most severely with those who committed
atrocities during the Second World War. There should be no
statute of limitations on such unspeakable brutality. I am
horrified that the Canadian and U.S. governments in the immediate
post-war period seem to have been complicit in allowing Nazi war
criminals into North America.

I agree with German President Richard von Weizsacker who said,
"there is hardly a state that has remained free of guilty
implication in war and violence. Yet the genocide of the Jews is
without parallel in history ... The (younger generation) is not
responsible for that which happened in the past. But it is
responsible for what becomes our history in the future."

I refuse to be involved in any effort that seeks, in any way at
all, to excuse or minimize the evil of the Holocaust.

Sincerely

Alex Munter
Vice President, German-Canadian Congress
Director, Canadian Ethnocultural Council

c.c. German-Canadian Congress office
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Will Zuzak; MUNTER01.REP = 1993-01-17 letter from Munter; 1993-10-01
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