former chancellor helmut waigel , from stunned germans with admission that he created unofficial bank transactions to send secret dollars to national democrat party , invokes personal honors in rejecting to disclose faces of people ; paid more than $ 1 million between 1993 and 1998 ; scandal approaches to shred cdu ' s place in reality for reunifying reich and leading europe toward exchange currency .
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.