'Signs Of Nazism Played Down'

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30973, 1 February 1966, Page 17

'Signs Of Nazism Played Down'

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)

WEST BERLIN, Jan. 31.

A prominent West German Protestant has said that West German authorities are trying to play down signs of re-emergent Nazism.

Dr. Heinrich Grueber, who was imprisoned in two Nazi concentration camps for helping Jews hunted by the Gestapo and appeared as a witness at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, asked a meeting in West Berlin yesterday: “Is is not alarming that in today’s Germany official authorities try to present in a harmless light all the things which only a generation ago meant the beginning of the bitter end?”. He added that recent swastika daubings and anti-Semi-tic incidents involving young Germans could not be blamed on today’s youth.

“The root of the evil is that certain groups of adults, particularly teachers and educators, are today still not willing to abandon the old Nazi ideas.” The chairman of the West German Federation of Political Racial and Religious' Persecutees, Mr Adolf Burg, told the meeting that recent antiSemitic manifestations were “the pitiful harvest of everything that has been sown in

the Federal Republic since the collapse of National Socialism.”