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Show Page THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, E4 Thursday, September 29, 1994 German youtth working by spread nafionalistt views ti tries," taxi driver Michael Woelk says in one TV spot. "Why ARTHUR ALLEN if Associated Press Writer Dieter POTSDAM, Germany Stein, a young man bent on reviving the German soul, is fighting the those "dictators of conscience" "politically correct" liberals who harp relentlessly on the Nazi years. His weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit (Young Freedom) mocks America and the parliamentary democrats in Bonn. It honors the German military tradition and defends 1920s intellectuals w ho have been discredited by their association with Nazism. shouldn't we Germans be proud, too?" "There's a difference between patriotism and nationalism," said Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis, a sponsor of the campaign who lives in Frankfurt. It was in cosmopolitan Frankfurt, the economic and intellectual hub of West Germany, that philosopher Juergen Habermas coined '1 A 1 , ' W S ysA, "Vergassungspatriotismus" loyalty to the 1949 constitution to describe the appropriate kind of German patriotism. Stein's nationalism has other roots and other goals. He believes postwar Germany was stunted by foreign occupation and needs to rebuild its identity by celebrating past glories and loosening its ties to Stein, 27, disavows any link who have with the stomped around Germany hurling firebombs during the past four ypars. But some Germans view Junge Freiheit, which he founded eight years ago, as the tip of a growing iceberg of nationalism. As Germany sheds the last vesWar II foreign tiges of domination and moves 'toward a neo-Naz- ' post-Wor- is the West. He chose Potsdam as Junge Freiheit's headquarters because ld watershed election Oct. 16, politicians and thinkers are debating the future shape of the nation. The debate plays out in dozens of books, on the front pages and in : editorial sections of newspapers and magazines, on podiums where national candidates paint their visions of the future as they seek AP Photo Dieter Stein, 27, in his office at Potsdam, Germany, holds his right-win- g publication Junge Freiheit, which mocks America and the parliamen tary democrats in Bonn. Many of Germany's new critics are young and their conservative ideas are packaged in slick publications like Stein's. votes--. On the right, there is broad questioning of the assumed wis- - dom of the postwar era. This ranges from a fringe that denies the Holocaust occurred to cultural critics who belittle the values of Western capitalism and point to other sources of German culture. Many of the new critics are young and package their ideas in slick publications like Junge Freiheit, which tries to be a countercul-turjournal for the right. "They are young people, not nessmen, politicians and other leaders began an advertising campaign this summer intended to imbue the young with healthy patriot- said Eike Hennig, a old Nazis," professor at Kassel University. "They can say things the old ones don't trust themselves to say." vioIn response to lence that has arisen since reunification, a group of German busi ism. right-win- g al "Frenchmen, Britons and Americans are proud of their coun the former Prussian capital, dominated by the Sans Souci palace of Frederick the Great, is in the heart of "middle Germany . ' ' Middle Germany is what Stein provocatively calls the former East Germany. For him, "east Germany" is East Prussia and Silesia, conquered by Frederick but ceded to Poland after World War II. They are Polish now, Stein conceded in an interview, but "perhaps not forever." Germans said similar things during the years of American and Russian control after the war, but the statements carried less weight then. On Sept. 8, when the last Allied troops handed the defense of Berlin over to German soldiers, Germany was formally left to determine its own future. Unified Germany, firmly rooted in NATO and the European Union, may take years to fully shed what Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel calls its "culture of restraint." But the signposts of postwar a liberal Germany's special path political asylum policy to make amends for Hitler's persecution a limited defense strategy to make are already up for his aggression . - fading. Germany has refused 55,000 " refugees this year and is .in preparing its army to take part international military operations Given Germany's undeniable strength, even inoffensive-seemin- g statements can cause alarm. Britain and Italy reacted angrily to being left out of a proposal by Chancellor Helmut Kohl's party Sept. for a tightly integrated core of states in the European Union. Wolfgang Schaeuble, Kohl's No. 2 and author of the proposal, set off howls of protest inside Germany earlier in the year with this statement: "Only common values and a national sense of belonging can give us a stable state." He was accused by Rudolf Scharping, the Social Democrat challenging Kohl, of giving "nawould-b- e 1 conservationalism and right-win- g veneer tism a ... a dangerous policy for our pseudo-intellectu- al : land." Dangerous or not, there is grow ing consensus among German conservatives that it is time to restore some old values. Multi-ethn- ic Bosnia runs on smoothly the 14th floor i (M 11 By SRECKO LATAL Associated Press Writer SARAJEVO, High above the devastation of Sarajevo, a small, multi-ethni- c group is making a mockery of nationalist claims that Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats can't live together. 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