Incorrigible Germans Irked When Continuing Anti-Semitism Revealed
Israel, Warsaw Plan
Ghetto Observances
Willy Weyer, interior minis- or not, but the fact that the
By JOHN DORNBERG
article he sharply attacked the
archaic German security laws ' ter of the state of Northrine-
which enable the government Westphalia and a spokesman
to bring treason charges against for the Free Democrats (FDP),
virtually anyone on the slight- Germany's third party, de-
scribed Bauer's remarks as de-
FRANKFURT—If there's one est pretext.
thing the Germans can't stand
The other day, a Danish famation which would harm
it's to be told they are incor- boulevard paper, B.T., pub- Germany's image abroad." The
rigible, are still anti-Semitic lished an interview with spirit of democracy," said
and would probably welcome' Bauer. In it he was quoted Meyer, "has never had deeper
Hitler again if he were to re- as saying that if Hitler were roots in the German people
appear on the scene.
to return to the German than now."
When this charge is leveled scene today, his "one hundred
Even Bauer's own party, the
by an outsider, it is usually days" would last a great deal SPD, took potshots at him, '
waved off haughtily as blind longer than Napoleon's.
Franz Barsig, the SPD's official
jealousy on the part of those
"If Hitler were to reappear spokesman, said the prosecutor
who begrudge West Germany in Germany today the German general's statements represent-
her booming economy and people would not reject him," ed a "distorted" view of con-
flowering export business.
he was quoted as saying. "I ditions as they really are in
The same allegation, made by doubt whether Germany's young Germany.
a German, usually results in his democracy would be strong
At the weekend an investiga-
ostracism as a Communist or enough to resist him.
tion by the Hessian state parlia-
tool of the East.
"I don't think you could per- ment was pending.
And if that German—rare as
All Bauer could say, other
such cases are—happens to be suade a German today to give
a prominent public official, you his real opinion of Jews. than reiterate his claim' that
he'll soon find himself the ob- Although there is no Jewish he had been misquoted, was
ject of a full-scale government problem in Germany, anti- to emphasize that the Danes,
investigation and the target of Semitism still glimmers under- after all, were not ignorant of
a barrage of venomous criti- neath the surface. The domi- conditions in West Germany.
nant influence of the Jews in
Support for Bauer came—as
cism.
This, in essence, is what Germany's economic and cul- usual—only from a handful of
is happening to Dr. Fritz tural life has been broken. But liberal newspapers.
Bauer, the Prosecutor Gen- the hate is still the same. Today
The Frankfurter Rundshau,
eral of the State of Hesse. people wouldn't say 'pig' to a for example, said that Germany,
Jew
in
Germany.
They
merely
Bauer, Hesse's highest rank-
like some uncivilized tribe in
ing legal authority, has made say, 'we forgot to gas you'."
deepest Africa, had developed
One
day
after
news
of
the
a name for himself with his
a "cult of untouchability."
i
published
Danish
interview
relentless pursuit of ex-Nazis,
The issue in the Bauer case,
reached
Germany,
Bauer
was
a
his search for war criminals-in-
said the Rundschau, was not
hiding and his outspoken views man on the run.
whether or not the prosecutor
on such subjects as resurgent
Insisting all the while that general had made the remarks
anti-Semitism and teaching Ger- he had been misquoted and
man youth more about the that statements attributed to
Third Reich.
him in the interview had been
He has played a major role invented or taken out of con-
in preparing the case for the text, Bauer became the center
government in the massive of a swirling controversy.
Auschwitz concentration camp
The German federal govern-
trial expected to come up in ment expressed its "indigna-
Frankfurt later this year.
tion" over Bauer's remarks. ,
At the height of the Spiegel.
The leader of the Chris-
magazine crisis last November, ! tian Democrats (CDU) in
Bauer was virtually the only Ilesse, Dr. Wilhelm Fay, de-
jurist to stand up and criticize manded the immediate sus-
the federal government's ac- pension of Bauer, a Social
tions. In a widely distributed I• Democrat (SPD).
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Editor's Note: John Dornberg, an
American writer and editor, has
covered the German scene for a
number of years.
session, Rabbi Herbert A. Fried-
man, UJA executive vice chair-
man, warned the conference
delegates that "the end of heavy
Jewish refugee movement is not
in sight." He declared: "For
the third successive year a
human tide of European and
North African Jews turn to us
for help to begin new lives in
Israel and other lands."
Dr. Avram Biran of Jerusa-
lem, head of the department of
archaeology and antiquities of
Israel's Ministry of Education,
told the gathering that while
two-thirds of -the free world's
Jews live outside fo Israel they
were meeting on'y one third of
the problem of receiving and
absorbing Israel's newcomers.
"The Jews of the United
States and other free coun-
tries must increase their aid
because while we will not
deny entry. to a single Jew
who comes to us, the burden
absorption is greater than we
can carry," he said.
A special women's division
session was led by Mrs. John C.
Hopp of Detroit, former chair-
man, UJA women's division.
The closing session of the con-
ference, presided over by Her-
bert H. Schiff, of Columbus,
IUJA cabinet member, saw
awards of UJA 25th anniversary
medals go to 12 long time lead-
ers of UJA activities, including
Thomas Cook, Ann Arbor, and
Louis Kasle, Flint.
Rheumatic Heart Martyr
Alfred Seymour Reinhart, a
Harvard University m e d i c al
student who used his own illness
to study rheum at i c heart
disease, kept close observation
on his symptoms during what
he knew as the last month of
his life. He died in 1931. His
observations provided valuable
clues to later researches of the
disease.
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End of Jewish Refugee Movement
Not in Sight, UJA Leaders Told
CHICAGO—Six hundred Mid-
west Jewish leaders represent-
ing communities in 13 states
formally opened the 25th an-
nual United Jewish Appeal in
their areas by unanimously
adopting the UJA's 1963 nation-
al campaign goal of $96,000,000
of which $36,000,000 represents
a special fund for new immi-
grants. -
The action was taken at the
clOsing session Sunday of the
three-day United Jewish Appeal
Midwest Leadership Institute
with Albert B. Adelman of Mil-
waukee, UJA campaign cabinet,
serving as conference chairman,
at the Edgewater Beach Hotel.
Speaking at the Saturday
night banquet session Lynn
A. Townsend, president of
Chrysler Corporation, declar-
ed: "The humanitarian work
of the United Jewish Appeal
is a constant reminder of the'
need for the translation of
compassion into practical
aid." The Detroit industrialist
strongly praised UJA's contri-
bution to the American tradi-
tion of helping others declar-
ing, "the record of Jewish
generosity is a part of this
American tradition of which
we can all be proud."
"UJA has shown. itself capable
of responding to human suffer-
ing the world over with a well-
organized program of action—
giving money, time, and energy
to those who are in need of
help," Townsend said.
Joseph Meyerhoff of Balti-
more, UJA general chairman,
also spoke at the session, strong-
ly urging delegates to adopt
measures in their local commu-
nities that will provide the addi-
tional funds required in 1963.
Max M. Fisher of Detroit,
UJA national chairman, was
chairman of the banquet.
At Friday evening's banquet
JERUSALEM, •(JTA) — Is-
story in the Danish daily
touches on matters which no rael's cabinet appointed a spe-
one in Germany wants to dis- cial joint committee, represent-
ing the government and the
cuss.
While there is no "Jewish Jewish Agency, to draw up a
problem" in Germany today, program for commemoration of
primarily because there are so the 20th anniversary of the
few Jews and those who do Warsaw Ghetto uprising which
live here are packed in tissue falls on April 21, Israel's Holo-
paper like fragile treasures, caust Memorial Day. Foreign
basic feelings have not changed, Minister Golda Meir heads the
committee. -
said the Rundschau.
(In New York, the World
But other than isolated edi-
torials like this outspoken ex- Jewish C o ngr es s announced
ample, there was little support that a special WJC delegation
will go to Warsaw to commem-
of Bauer.
The prosecutor general's days, orate the Warsaw Ghetto up-
like those of others who have rising on April 21. Israel M.
dared to remind Germans of Sieff, of London, a vice-presi-
their apathy and their past, dent of the WJC, will head the
delegation.)
may be numbered.
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