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"It's completely obvious that World War II was a horrific crime," said one of the young people, Johanna Nimrich, 18. "It's impossible to understand why people who participated in the war are honored, but those who resisted participation are not."

Germans Still Finding New Moral Burdens of War
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN

ULM, Germany, May 4 - This attractive town on the Danube River is endowed with dozens of memorials dedicated to those who suffered in the two world wars, with one memorial in particular, a group of seven inscribed slabs surmounting a knoll in the main cemetery, serving officially as Ulm's all-inclusive and all-encompassing memorial to the victims of Nazism.

But there is a local controversy about these memorials, and it reflects a larger fact of German life. Even now, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this country still has not settled exactly on how to remember the victims, or on whose suffering and losses are entitled to be commemorated.

A small group of young people here has been getting attention in the local newspapers as it argued, in pamphlets and at public meetings that the array of Ulm memorials fails to honor one category: those who deserted the German Army, many of whom were executed during the war.