Vladimir V. Putin laying a wreath in the Katyn forest during a Russian-Polish ceremony in 2010.Credit Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters Can Germany ever close the chapters of World War II? Over the past 60 years, successive German governments have been compensating victims of the Holocaust. In my latest Letter From Europe, I write about the battle over how to pay pensions to Holocaust survivors who volunte
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