Adenauer Condemns Anti-Semitism

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29101, 13 January 1960, Page 11

Adenauer Condemns Anti-Semitism

BERLIN, January 12. The West German Chancellor (Dr. Adenauer) said in a radio interview last night that he wanted West German authorities to intervene against antiSemitic outbreaks as strongly as West Berlin authorities had done.

The Chancellor, on a two-day visit to West Berlin, said West Germany’s enemies would use the incidents “to say the Germans are the same as they were before.” Public opinion in West Germany should always turn against every form of racial or religious persecution, he said. West Berlin police searched the city last night for anti-Semitic posters after they had found one showing a cartoon of Dr. Adenauer and the words “Juden raus” (Jews get out). Four other posters so far discovered by police on fences had cartoons of Dr. Adenauer, his

personal secretary. Dr. Hans Globke, and Dr. Theodor Oberlander, a Cabinet member. They carried the words "Hostile to the West German Government,” but no anti-Semitic slogans, police said. Police were now attempting to discover, if the placards with and without anti-Semitic words came from the same source, the news agency said. One police official said it was possible that Communists were responsible for the posters. The Communists had accused Dr. Adenauer of tolerating neoNazism, and Dr. Globke and Dr. Oberlander of being former Nazis.

In Bad Godesberg, near Bonn, a school attended by many children of diplomats expelled a 14-year-old pupil who scratched “Jews get out” and “Heil Hitler” into the back of a school chair. Hand-painted posters with the inscription “Kill the Jews” appeared on walls and fences in the Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger during the night. Two leading Labour Party politicians, Mr Richard Crossman and Mr Fenner Brockway, claimed tonight they had been threatened with death by a’ pro-Nazi organisation. Mr Crossman said during a televised programme that a letter he received last Wednesday charged him with having wilfully and knowingly defamed pure National Socialism and the pure racial British people during another television programme last week. Mr Brockway was said to have been warned: “Unless you cease your treasonable pro-Jewish activities at once you will be liquidated.” Police are investigating both reports, but would make no comment tonight. Mr Crossman said his letter was typed in red. It said: “London Pogroms Committee of the People's Liberation Army— Crossman—you are hereby charged with the following offences:

“That on the 4th day of January, 1959. you did wilfully and knowingly defame and deride pure National Socialism and pure racial proud British people. “That the above offence was committed in a spirit of high treason on behalf of world Jewish conspirators the enemy of all peoples.

“You are informed that the above offences were committed during the course of the television programme ‘Who Goes Next?’ “Count 2 carries the death penalty under the people’s liberation law, but as the people’s intelligence informs the committee that you are the innocent lackey of the Jews, unaware of the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ and the Jews-Mason plot to enslave the world, then the charge has been dropped. “Count 1 carries the penalty of four years’ hard labour which can be arbitrarily enforced by the Committee of Liberation, but this sentence has been indefinitely suspended until the offence is committed again. “The committee sincerely hopes that your name will not be drawn to our attention again. The people are ready All over the world the forces of freedom and Fascism are preparing for the great struggle against Jewish imperialists, so be warned.” The letter addressed to Mr Brockway was received at the House of Commons this afternoon. It purported to come from the Buckinghamshire Pogroms Committee of the People’s Liberation Army and was signed “X”

It said reprisals would be taken against a number of Jewish "agitators and organisers in this country for the vicious, brutal persecution of German Nazis.” Mr Brockway was named "ona of the worst criminals” and was told that unless he ceased "treasonable pro-Jewish activities at once" he would be “liquidated.”