Dachau alert

Press, 27 January 1979, Page 9

Dachau alert

NZPA Dachau (West Germany) Extra police are guarding Dachau concentration camp memorial this week to prevent desecrations by neoNazis protesting against the television serial, “Holocaust,” officials have said.

West German reaction to the American-made movie on Nazi atrocities has been overwhelmingly favourable, but there have been mutterings from the extreme Right wing. I “Holocaust: Inciting People Against Germany,” said a handbill distributed by the ultra-Right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany attacking the United States for making the series.

Dachau camp memorial. : north of Munich, has been ; under 24-hour guard ever [since the series began on ! Monday, the police have [said.

The Cologne station which is broadcasting the four-part series this week for a nation-wide hook-up of regional stations said on Thursday that it had received more than 21,000 telephone calls from viewers. About three in every 100 phone calls are abusive, even threatening, German television has reported, but more than two-thirds of the viewers praised the decision to telecast the drama of a Jewish family’s sufferings in Hitler’s Germany. The network said one caller threatened. Wednesday to rill Heinz Galinski, chairman of the Jewish community in West Berlin, unless [ the last two instalments of the series were cancelled.