지난 3월 25일 일본 사가현 무량사에서 안중근 의사의 의거 101년에 즈음하여
'안중근 동양 평화 기념비'라는 기념비를 세웠다한다.

일본으로서는 당시 정계 거물 이등박문 암살자로서 안중근 의사가 눈에 가시같이
느꼇을것 같으나 이를 접고 그의 훌륭한 인품을 기려 동양평화라는 큰 의미에서
이번일을 성사케 된것은 크게 칭송할만한 일이라 생각된다.

이번일을 게재한 중앙 일보기사와 남정호 가자의 comment글을 여기에 옮겼스비다.  규정

눈 앞의 이해관계에 눈이 흐려서, 군중과 인파에 몰려 다니는 사람이 대부분인가 하면,
자기에 소신대로 행동해 끝까지 지조를 지키는 사람은 시간이 지나면, 만인의 존경을 받는가함.

독일이 히트러 광기에 사로 잡혀, 국민이 전쟁에 참석할때,
무엇이 잘못돼간다고 협조안하고, 감옥에 몇번씩 들어간 사람이 우리가 잘아는 아데나우어 독일 전후 수상이라고 얘기 들엇음. 

Konrad Adenauer was born as the third of five children of Johann Konrad Adenauer (1833–1906) and his wife Helene (1849–1919) (née Scharfenberg) in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia.

[edit] Leader in Cologne

As a devout Catholic, he joined the Centre Party in 1906 and was elected to Cologne’s city
council in the same year. In 1909, he became Vice-Mayor of Cologne, an industrial metropolis with a population of 635,000 in 1914. Avoiding the extreme political movements that attracted so many of his generation, Adenauer was committed to bourgeois common-sense, diligence, order, Christian morals and values, and was dedicated to rooting out disorder, inefficiency, irrationality and political immorality.^[2] From 1917 to 1933, he served as Mayor of Cologne.

Adenauer headed Cologne during the First World War, working closely with the army to maximize the city's role as a rear base of supply and transportation for the Western Front.

He paid special attention to the civilian food supply, as the city financed large warehouses of food that enabled the residents to avoid the worst of the severe shortages that beset most German cities during 1918–1919. He set up giant kitchens in working-class districts to supply 200,000 rations per day.^[3] In the face of the collapse of the old regime and the threat of revolution and widespread disorder in late 1918, Adenauer maintained control in Cologne using his good working relationship with the Social Democrats.

He was mayor during the postwar British occupation. He established a good working relationship with the British military authorities, using them to neutralize the workers' and soldiers' council that had become an alternative base of power for the city's left wing.^[4]

He flirted with Rhenish separatism (a Rhenish state as part of Germany, but outside Prussia). During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council (Preußischer Staatsrat) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.

[edit] Nazi years

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Centre Party lost the elections in Cologne and was disbanded. Adenauer, no longer mayor, fled to the abbey of Maria Laach. His stay at this abbey, which lasted for a year, was cited by its abbot after the war, when Adenauer was accused by Heinrich Böll and others of collaboration with the Nazis.

According to Albert Speer in his book Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Hitler expressed admiration for Adenauer, noting his building of a road circling the city as a bypass, and of a “green belt” of parks. However, both Hitler and Speer felt that Adenauer’s political views and principles made it impossible for him to play any role in Nazi Germany.

He was imprisoned briefly after the Night of the Long Knives in mid-1934. During the next two years, he changed residences often for fear of reprisals against him by the Nazis, while living on his pension. In 1937, he was successful in claiming at least some compensation for his once confiscated house and managed to live in seclusion for some years.

After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime. He fell ill and credited Eugen Zander, the communist Kapo
 of the camp near Bonn, with saving his life by getting him transferred to a hospital.

He was then re-arrested, but in the absence of any evidence against him was released from
 Brauweiler Abbey in November.

Shortly after the war ended the American occupation force installed him again as Mayor of Cologne, but the British Director of Military Government in Germany, Gerald Templer, dismissed him for what he said was his alleged incompetence.