A strain in the relationship between Ukraine and Germany has arisen.
Ukraine declined a visit of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They said they would prefer German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit Kyiv.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a stark reminder of the butchery and savergy of World War II.
German general Erich von Manstein oversaw the murder of 14,000 civilians as the German army occupied Crimea. They included Jews, Gypsies and Tartars.
Manstein was tried in Hamburg, sentenced to 18 years in jail but only served four. He served as a military adviser to the German government. He died in Munich in 1973.
He was associated with battles and unspeakable atrocities in places that are now so familiar, Kharkiv, on the river Dnieper, Sevastopol, Crimea.
And now it’s the Russians who are carrying out the barbarity.
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