1.   A decade ago, at unification, Kohl accepted that German guilt.

2.   A new book on the Holocaust threatens to reopen the debate over German guilt.

3.   Even though the war is long over, German guilt and responsibility remain touchy subjects.

4.   Liberal Germans have criticized the manifesto as an attempt to erode German guilt and responsibility for backing Adolf Hitler and bringing on the war.

5.   This is appropriate, as German guilt is unique.

6.   Was his attraction to Jewish mysticism also a product of German guilt?

7.   Novelist Martin Wasler, in a November acceptance speech for a prestigious literary prize, complained that media images of the Holocaust are designed to perpetuate German guilt.

8.   However, still others reject the notion of a collective German guilt, or see no useful purpose to be served in raking over the painful past any more.