victory of - Neo-Nazis in Germ a n y Is Seen as Threat to World Peace
By

ALFRED WOLFMANN

JTA, Correspondent in West Germany
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc-)

BONN—The victory of the Na-
tional Democratic Party in the
Bavarian elections—and two weeks

earlier in the elections in Hesse—
shows clearly that this is not mere-
ly an accident, but a result of cer-

tain political developments in re-
cent years.
If we take into consideration that
Germany still lives in prosperity
and that there is no unemployment
at all, the jiistified question arises:
What might happen if really one
day Germany undergoes an econo-
mic 'crisis. and hoW much stronger
might those neo-Nazi forces be-
come?
The fact that German politicians
—who are terribly shocked them-
selves by this frightening neo-Nazi
victory—try to calm down world
opinion with declarations that "af-
ter all, a majority of the German
people still vote for the big demo-
cratic parties and the success of
the N1)P should not be overesti-
mated"—all this does not change
the fact that. 21 years after the
end of the \t ar and after the end
of the bii_:ge.4 and most horrible
crimes. in Nazi Germany a politi-
cal party which follows the line of
the Nazi Party has won such a
victory v. - e have witnessed in
Hesse and Bavaria.
Of course, the NDP pretends
to be democratic and pretends to
follow the democratic constitu-
tion of the Federal Republic of
Germany. But this disguise can
not change the fact that no Nazi
Party in Germany could afford
to declared openly that it in-
tends to follow the political line
of Hitler. e, there are laws pro-
hibiting .any anticonstitutional
Nazi activity.
The NDP knows this as well as
they know of the end of another
neo-Nazi party in 1952: the "So-
cialist Reichspartei (SRP) was
Outlawed then because of its open
anti-constitutional activities as a
neo-Nazi party. The National
Democratic Party of today, which
was established only a year aao,
intends to avoid the fate of the
SRP by declaring itself against a
dictatorshia and in favor of democ-
racy. But there is evidence that
in its mass meetings and election
campaien the NPD used clear neo-
Nazi propaganda in every respect.
Taking into consideration the fact
that this propaganda is directed to
some members of the same gen-
eration which lived and acted in
the Hitler period, this means a

a Nazi activitiy. And nobody in
the world can agree to the official
German practice that the Commu-
nist Party is outlawed in West Ger-
many while the neo-Nazi NDP is
a legal party.
In only one year, from 1965
to 1966, the NDP managed in
Bavaria to triple its strength.
In the 1965 Bundestag elections
it obtained in Bavaria only 2.7
per cent, while in the state elec-
tions of November 20, 1966 the
NDP got '7.4 per cent. But even
this figure does not show its real
strength. In the big election dis-
trict of Franconia — an old
stronghold of Nazism in Ger-
many—the NDP obtained 12.4
per cent of the total vote. And
in Nuremberg — another Hitler
stronghold—this neo-Nazi party
could improve its election re-
sults from 6 per cent in 1965 to
13 per cent in the recent elec-
tions, while other big cities had
an even higher percentage for
the NDP.
The question. of course, arises
as to why such a big success of
this neo-Nazi party was possible.
The former vice-chancellor and
leader of the Free Democratic
Party, Dr. Erich Mende, predicted
that in all coming German elec-
tions the NDP will gain no fewer

than in Hesse and Bavaria.
A leading member of the pres-
ent Cabinet told me that it was
the confusion in the government
and the political and economical
mistakes of the Christian Demo-
cratic Union (CDU) — the leading
German party—which led to the
surprising victory of the NDP. But
in fact this minister was unable
to answer my questions as to why
so many Germans, being frus-
trated with the Government and
the CDU, are not voting for any
other democratic opposition party.
but lean toward a new Nazi party.
The fact is that the recent
victories of the NDP and its com-
ing victories in other parts of
Germany are no surprise at all,
because leaders of the big poli-
tical parties have paved the way
for this victory of the NDP. It
was the leader of the Social
Democratic Party—and not of
the NDP—it was this leader, the
Mayor of Berlin, who presented
the daughter of the Nazi war
criminal Albert Speer with roses
on the day of the release of
Speer from Spandau prison. This
was motivated by Willi Brandt's
appreciation of Speer's attitude
during the Nuremberg trial of
20 years ago.
Important members of the Ger-

man parliament regularly send danger will not only grow in Ger-
special greetings to the notorious many but will be a menace to the
Waffen-SS meetings, where con- whole world and to world peace.
victed Nazi criminals are openly
hailed and cheered. It is the lead- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
er of the big Christian Social
Friday, December 9, 1966 21
Union of Bavaria, Franz Josef
Strauss, and many other leaders of
the democratic political - parties
who say again and again in public
that it was not Hitler's Germany
alone which is guilty of the Sec-
ond World War, but the allied pow-
ers as well.

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All this and the fact that Nazi
criminals, as the present Secre-
tary of State, Friedrich Karl Via.
Ion (who participated in the perse-
cution of the Jews during the war
and sent them to concentration
camps), are still in office. paved
the way to the success of the neo-

Nazi NDP.
Unless world opinion rises and

sees to it that all Nazi tendencies
cease to exist, the world has a
right to demand the prohibition of
NDP. Otherwise. the nee - Nazi

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most alarming development.
In fact the danger of the NDP

is not and cannot be overesti-
- mated—as many German poli-
ticians 1,% ant to t ell them-
selves and to the world. There
is not the slightest doubt that the
NDP—if it were in power—
would build up a Nazi dictator-
ship, similar to Hitler's -- per-
haps without new gas chambers.
There is also no doubt that this
neo-Nazi party would try to take
revenge for the lost war, thus
being the biggest danger to

world peace.

The great mistakes even many
"good minded - German politicians
make i,: to maintain an attitude
that, as long as a political party
does not openly admit it is a neo-
Nazi party. nothing actually could
be done against this party. This
in fact is the essential error, for
no neo - Nazi party in Germany—
unlike tim›e in England and in the
U.S.A., under Colin Jordan and
George Rockwell, will (due to
present German laws) admit in its
Official declared policy that in
fact it is a neo - Nazi party. What
counts is it< political activity. And
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