N.P.D. Threatens To Reveal Men’s Pasts

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 19

N.P.D. Threatens To Reveal Men’s Pasts

HANOVER (West Germany),, December 17. ' West Germany’s extreme Right-wing National Demo- : cratic Party (N.P.D.) has I threatened to publish docu- : ments about the alleged i Communist and Nazi pasts | of Government leaders if j they continued to brand > the party as the successor ! of Hitler’s Nazis. The party leader, Mr Adolf! Von Thadden told a press con-; ference yesterday that docu-; ments on the past of leading! personalities in the majority! Christian Democrat and Social, Democrat parties could be printed and distributed in millions of copies. i

Government sources said i last week that the Interior Minister (Mr Ernst Benda) jwould advocate seeking a iban on the party at a Cabinet i meeting on Wednesday, i If this met Cabinet approval, the Government would then apply to the constitu- | tional court in Karlsruhe, on I the grounds that the party | was unconstitutional and its leadership marked it as a sucicessor organisation of the! Nazi Party. Mr Von Thadden told reporters that his party’s national organisation committee had decided on possible publication of the documents to ! give the party some counter- ! ammunition to put before the ! Constitutional Court.