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Mental Hospital West Germans Oppose a New Hitler
Opened by Dutch But Neo-Nazis Continue Organizin
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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

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AMERSFOORT, Holland —
c The Sinai Hospital, the first
C Jewish mental hospital built in
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5 ' Europe since the end of World
War II, was officially opened
ms here Monday, with Queen Juli;
;1• ana as the guest of honor. The
queen lit the eternal light in
1 the hospital synagogue and was
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taken on a private tour of the
new institution.
z The $700,000 hospital was
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built by the Dutch Jewish Men-
u) tal Health Association with the
help of a grant from the Con-
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ference on Jewish Material
▪ Claims Against Germany and
with technical and financial as-
▪
sistance from the American
E-1 Joint Distribution Committee.
Speakers at the • ceremony in-
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eluded Charles H. Jordan, JDC
- European director; Saul Kagen,
secretary of the Claims Confer-
, ence, and Chief Rabbi Berlinger.
The 80-bed hospital is expected
to serve as a model for other
European mental care institu-
tions and it replaces the Apel-
doornsche Bosche, the famous
Jewish mental hospital in Am-
sterdam which was seized by .
the Nazis during the war.
Jordan called the new hos-
pital "one of the most important
links in the evolving chain of
operations we are helping build
to provide health services for
the Jews of Europe."
Dr. Armand Sunier, the hos-
pital director, said plans were
being made to use the hospital'
for training of doctors, nurses
and psychiatric social workers
in mental health programs of
other European countries.

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Stratford to Feature
`Pirates of Penzance '

STRATFORD, Ontario — A
new production of Gilbert and
Sullivan's "The Pirates of
Penzance," directed by Tyrone
Guthrie in the Avon Theater, a
continuation of the Music Work-
shop, and a series of week-end
concerts in the Festival The-
ater, will form the basis of the
music season of the Stratford
Shakespearean Festival of 1961.
These plans were announced
by Glenn Gould, Leonard Rose
and Oscar Shumsky who, with
Ezra Schabas as music manager,
form, the new music directorate
of the festival. In addition,
Gould, Rose and Shumsky also
will appear as the festival's
featured artists.

West Germans say they do not
want to see a man like Hitler in
power again. This fact emerged
in Bonn from a public opinion
poll carried out in. August, now
published in a government bulle-
tin, according to JTA.
Five percent of those ques-
tioned, favored having another
Hitler, 85 percent did not, and
10 percent refused comment. The
same question was asked in 1958.
Since then, the proportion of men
desiring another Hitler declined
from 14 percent to -six percent,
and for women, from six percent
to four percent.
'Nazis in 30-50 Age Groups
Most of those favoring another
Hitler are between 30 and 50
years old. The number of Nazis
brought to trial in the German
courts during the past two years
and the swastika-smearing epi-
demic early this year were said
to have something to do with
this hardening of 'public opinion.
Varying currents within Ger-
many over the punishment of
Nazi war 'Crimes and the han-
dling of more recent activities
are revealed in a number of
other JTA reports. Two former
SS guards at the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp have been
sentenced to life imprisonme
for the murder of camp inmat
a 17-year-old youth who last
nary attempted to set fire
a
synagogue in Amberg, and ho
later shot his brother, thre po-
licemen and two other p VMS
has been committed to a
ntal
institution.
New Neo-Nazi Front
Fifteen ex-Nazi judges and
prosecutors have been dis sed
from the West German judi4 y
to date. In' reporting the ex
sions, Dr. Flehinghaus, No
Rhine-Westphalia Minis t er o
Justice, refused to state the num-
ber of cases in progr uing
that "figures wo
only
distorted pi
e." Dr. Fri
Schaeffer,
Mister
of Justice,
he small number
of judici officials who were ex-
pelled
ed that the West Ger-
man
ciary was "by far n t as
ba
s s reputation ab
ecently a new n
front" has be
burg by Fr' dr'
er Hitler th
ader, un
nion of
People."
I rnational Ring
eo-Nazi
ein inherite
the late
lea ship mantle
Karl
nester,
Wiesbaden,

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authorities called the head of an
international neo-fascist move-
ment. A police raid on Priester's
home last May disclosed evidence
which, according to the author-
ities, uncovered an international
fascist ring with connections in
Arab countries as well as in the
United States, Britain, France,
Belgium, Switzerland, Canada
and Australia.
Klein had been Priester's prin-
cipal aide in attempting to con-
vene a congress here last spring,
under the banner of the so-called
"Emergency Union of Organiza-
tions loyal to the Reich." The
meeting was called off after po-
lice authorities indicated they
might raid the convention, if it
were to be held.

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CHILD
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The life of a child — any child — is priceless .. .

Germany Passing Bill
to Compensate Victims
of Nazi Sterilization 111

ildren's Wing of the City of Hope National

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BONN, (JTA)-
German vic
of
e Nazi
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sterilizatio
most of
whom
either partly Jewish
or p cal opponents of the
Thir • eich, are. to receive co
pe tion according to
ons of a bill now
ared by the West
ernment.
The victims
the Nazis to
hereditary
Delay
e view
draft bi
held by
liament that the
h a valid
in accordance
of
in. power
the govern
Demo-
aier, a S
Jacob
committee
cratic member of t
preparing ,the bi
nd the only
r of a large
surviving me
amily, said that
Partly-Jewi
no law."
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was an illegal order issued
by Hitler's personal doctor and
the SS doctors," he maintained.
"It was no more legal than the
rder to gas and massacre Jews."
tmaier declared that "because
confused bungling and fumb-
it has taken 15 years before
government has seen fit to
le this problem."

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cer, L e u k e m i a, Tuberculosis,

Hodgkins Disease and heart ail-

ments amenable to surgery.

Sunday, October 30, the

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jurist, the Honorable Judge Nathan J. Kaufman.

Comedian Buddy Hackett will entertain.

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