Like Hitler, like Stalin: But Communism's Victims Mostly Forgotten

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Earlier this month, a German institute postponed the U.S. debut of its harrowing photographic exhibit, "The German Army and Genocide," a collection of World War II photos offering searing evidence of complicity on the part of the regular German army (as opposed to Nazi Party forces) in the barbarisms of the Third Reich. Such complicity has long been denied or minimized by a German nation unwilling or unpersuaded to believe that any significant portion of its 20 million men-in-arms during World War II were culpable Nazi criminals.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who never visited the exhibit, said he found it "impermissible to say that the bulk of the army was capable of committing such crimes." For the past four years, though, the exhibit has been …