Swedish Nazi Ringleader Is Charged by Prosecutor With High Treason
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Bjorn
Lundahl, leader of the Swedish
Nazis arrested last week after po-
lice discovered a cache of weapons
at their headquarters and a list
of Swedish Jewish leaders marked
for assassination, was charged by
Sweden's chief prosecutor Monday
with high treason.
The prosecutor requested that
Lundahl and six other alleged
Nazis arrested with him be held
without bail pending a police
search for further evidence against
the men.
A Stockholm policeman was sus-
pended Tuesday on charges he was
connected with the organization.
All have denied they had had
any contacts with the Egyptian
embassy here.
They had allegedly planned for
anti-Israeli espionage and for help
to be given by Swedish Nazis to
an Egyptian attack against Israel.
The prosecution also announced it
had uncovered a possible link be-
tween Swedish Nazis and a plot to
have a newspaper in Oslo, Nor-
way, print pro-Nazi material.
A statement expressing the
governments' reaction to the
Nazi group, "deploring". its ex-
istence and terming the exist-
ence of a Nazi ring as "Muniliat-
ing to all Swedes" was issued bT
Prime Minister Tage Erlander.
Target of the death sentence was
Bernard Tarschys, chairman of the
European 'Parliament'
Calls on Moscow to
End Discrimination
STRASBOURG (JTA) — The
Council of Europe, which serves
as an unofficial European parlia-
ment of 21 countries, called during
its regular session here on the
Soviet government to accord equal
religious, cultural and communal
rights to the 3,000,000 Jews in
Russia.
The Council said in a resolution
that "there is a European respon-
sibility towards the Jewish peo-
ple." The resolution was approved
unanimously after having been
proposed by the Council's political
committee. It urged the. Soviet
Union to "accord to the Jewish
community the religious and cul-
tural rights guaranteed to all reli-
gious and ethnic groups by articles
123 and 124 of the constitution of
the USSR."
The 200 members of the Coun-
cil, representing all the political
parties in the 21 member nations,
expressly mentioned the need
"to permit Jews to open or reopen
synagogues, publish and study
Hebrew texts, distribute freely
religious articles, organize as a
religious community and main-
tain contacts with Jewish com-
munities abroad."
The resolution also urged the
Soviet authorities to permit the
reestablishment of Jewish cultural
institutions and appealed to them
to "prevent anti - Semitic propa-
ganda, whether in the form of
books or pamphlets, and eliminate
all judicial discrimination against
Jews concerned in alleged eco-
nomic crimes."
The Council's Political Commit-
tee stressed a paragraph in the
resolution which calls for reunifi-
cation of families.
Canadian Budgets Set
MONTREAL (JTA) — The 1965
budgets for the Canadian Jewish
Congress and the United Jewish
Relief Agencies were approved
here Tuesday by the CJC national
executive committee, providing
$412,778.25 for the Congress and
$2,250,000 for the UJRA.
Stockholm Board of Jewish Depu-
ties, who was "convicted" of "Zion-
ism, treacherous double loyalty,
subversive propaganda and anti-
Swedish activities," police said.
They found two caches of arms in
the raid.
The plans for murdering all
Swedish Jews provided for injec-
tions and burning of corpses on
Stockholm refuse dumps. Other
documents, including films and
tape recordings indicated many
years of systematic efforts at anti-
Semitic indoctrination of Swedes,
especially of youth. It appeared
that a Hitler Jugen group directed
by the Swedish Nazis operated as
a sports club and thus received
municipal subsidies.
The Israel embassy has received
anonymous anti-Semitic letters in
recent years, apparently from the
Swedish Nazis. The Svenska Dag-
bladet meanwhile reported that
there had been systematic persecu-
tion and physical maltreatment of
Jewish students from 1960 to 1962.
The Central Council of Swed-
ish Jewish Communities express-
ed its alarm over the discovery
of the ring. The Council appeal-
ed to the government to increase
its vigilance against Nazism.
Swedish newspapers published
documents captured at the Nazi
headquarters and transcripts of
tape recordings showing that Lun-
dahl had held at least 30 meetings
with Kamel Hamed, former first
secretary of the Egyptian embassy
here. •
During one of those meetings,
it was disclosed, Hamed had re-
quested that the Swedish Nazis
send an anti-Zionist, Swedish stu-
dent to Israel, where the student
would join a kibbutz as a cover for
espionage operations through which
he would spy on Israel's defense
forces.
The tape recordings also indi-
cated that, at one meeting with
Hamed, Lundahl told the Egyptian
that 200 armed men could seize
Stockholm. Another document was
a signed pledge by Lundahl, appar-
ently in reply to a question from
the Egyptians, in which the Nazi
promised to "help Egypt with a
Swedish army of 5,000 infantry,
c o m p l e t e l y equipped, against
Israel."
$600 Million in Bonds
Sold in Past 10 Years
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Joseph
J. Schwartz, reporting on the pro-
gram of the Israel Bond Organiza-
tion during the 10 years he has
been executive vice-president, said
that in that 10-year period be-
tween May 16, 1955, through May
15, 1965, a total of some $600,000,-
000 in Israel Bonds was sold in
the United States and other parts
of the free world.
He told a press conference also
that during 1955, a total of $43,-
507,150 was sold in Israel Bonds.
Last year, proceeds from the Israel
Bond campaign amounted to $85,-
280,350 or almost twice the figure
of 10 years ago, he said. He also
reported that total sales since the
inception of the program in May,
1951, was $775,000,000.
He - emphasized that in recent
years the Israel Bond campaign
had broken new ground in tapping
sources outside the framework of
t h e J e wish community. Labor
unions, almost all of them with
largely non - Jewish membership,
have been buying Israel Bonds in
substantial amounts, he reported.
"Hundreds of banks have also
bought millions of dollars worth
of Israel Bonds. In 1964, alone,
more than $12,000,000 in Israel
Bonds were sold to banks."
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"After seizing power in Sweden,"
Lundahl had said, "we will confis-
cate Jewish property, arrest all
enemies of the Egyptians, prohibit
Jewish emigration to Israel and
solve the Jewish problem with
Egyptian assistance."
A number of members of parlia-
ment asked the minister of the in-
terior last weekend whether the
government would act with dis-
patch to trace and halt further
anti-democratic activities in this
country.
The Swedish press, as a whole,
pointed out that Swedish young
people were shockingly lacking in
knowledge and understanding of
the meaning of Nazism as a threat
not only to Jews but to democracy
in general.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Experts on neo-Nazi activities
estimated Wednesday that Swe-
dish Nazi activities, highlighted
by the raid last week, involved
outlays of about $200,000 a year.
The experts said that such funds
were impossible to raise from
members and were obtained
from anonymous industrialists.
Chief Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm suf-
fered a heart attack, reportedly
caused by the disclosure of the
Nazi gang's operations, but his
condition was reported as not
serious. The Nazis have repeated-
ly accused Rabbi Wilhelm of anti-
Christian activities.
In another development, the
Nordic National Party and some
anonymous extremist groups sent
threatening letters to inhabitants
of Goteburg. One target of the let-
ters was Dr. Elmar Herterich, who
recently fled from Germany after
waging a one-man campaign to ex-
pose former Nazis now holding
political and judicial office in
West Germany.
It was reported here also that
Finnish security police were in-
vestigating reports of Nazi propa-
ganda circulating in Finland. They
reportedly did not find any evi-
dence of organized Nazi activities,
but did find foreign Nazi propa-
ganda_ The Helsinki newspaper
Ilta Sanomat interviewed an al-
leged leader of Finnish Nazis, a
22-year-old student who said he
had done his best to form a Nazi
group but that Finland was "back-
ward." Another Finnish newspa-
per demanded an investigation of
possible links between the Swedish
Nazi League and Finland.
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