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Contents Preface ix Ronald Reagan’s Remarks at a Commemorative Ceremony at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in the Federal Republic of Germany May 5, 1985 1 chapters 1: Ronald Reagan: A Maddeningly Contradictory Figure 5 2: Reagan as Ceremonial Speaker 30 3: Events Leading to Speeches at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg 53 4: From the Ashes Has Come Hope 91 5: A Seminal Symbolic Disaster: Reagan at Bitburg, May 5, 1985 122 Ronald Reagan’s Remarks at a Joint German-American Ceremony at Bitburg Air Base in the Federal Republic of Germany May 5, 1985 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 157 Index 161 ...

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