Justin Bieber's visit to Japan's Yasukuni war shrine ignites online backlash

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23. Reagan laid a wreath at Bitburg and he knew Nazis were buried there

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And Reagan was doing it in an official capacity.

But here is how he rationalized it:

"These [SS troops] were the villains, as we know, that conducted the persecutions and all. But there are 2,000 graves there, and most of those, the average age is about 18. I think that there's nothing wrong with visiting that cemetery where those young men are victims of Nazism also, even though they were fighting in the German uniform, drafted into service to carry out the hateful wishes of the Nazis. They were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps"

He might have pissed off some people with that visit, but the controversy quickly died down. He was, after all, the "Teflon President".