In the past, the more powerful Berlin and Germany have become, the more danger they have posed to their neighbors. Berlin's leaders are trying to deal constructively with their nation's and city's violent legacy by supporting memorial projects, school programs, and public discussion of ways to avoid the mistakes of the past, but they face major problems. For example, in an August 2000 poll, 51 percent of Germans felt there were too many foreigners in their country and about a third admitted to holding racist views. Anti-Semitic acts such as vandalism at synagogues and Jewish cemeteries have increased as the number of Jewish immigrants to Germany has grown, and anti-Semitic agitators have become more vocal. As the deputy president of the Central Council of German Jews says, "Anti-Semitism never went away, but now it has become more aggressive, open, more violent." This violence against...