Who would have suspected that less than one generation from the gruesome, methodical Nazi murders of some six million Jews a striking political and economic marriage could have arisen between West Germany and Israel? Such a close bond seemed so incredible that it led Shimon Peres, former Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, to say: "Our relations with Germany... presented one of the most unusual moral and political challenges that international diplomacy had ever known."
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