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Axel Springer Accelerates Battle
Against Nazis, New Left in Germany
Axel Springer, West Germany's' Prof. Felix Bloch and Prof. Harold
leading nwespaper publisher, is C. Urey, and Prof. Iisidor I. Rabi
reactinr, with firmness to the cam- . Originally ex-Vice President Hu-
paign inaugurated by the New Left bert Humphrey and US Senator
under a slogan "Dispossess Spring- William Benton were to have been
er." The leftists are charged with elected with Springer, but at Mr.
echoing the outcries of Walter Ul- Humphrey's request this was de-
bricht, East Germany's Communist layed till 1970. German Weizmann
dictator who is battling Springer Honorary Fellows include two
as an enemy he accuses of en- former Federal Chancellors, Kon-
rad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.
croaching upon all of Germany.
On his visit in Israel, during :
Springer's main aim in recent
years has been to emphasize the which he announced a $1,000,000
feeling of guilt over the Nazi ter- gift to the Weizmann Institute of
ror that resulted in the murder of Science in Tehovot, Springer
6,000,000 Jews. In his publications also received the "Medal for the
he has announced conducted a Benefactors of the City of Jerus-
battle against any form of totali- alem", designed by the Ameri-
tarianism, striving for "an eco- can sculptor Jacques Lipchitz.
nomic system of social justice." This is so far only the fourth
In recognition of his services in such medal presented.
Springer's efforts to reconcile
the cause of justice in Germany
why German students should want
to destroy this while their fellows
in Prague are struggling to obtain
a freedom like ours."
"For me", says Springer, "the
fight against Communism con-
tinues the fight against Nazism.
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Even his critics admit his uncan
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is qualified compositor, typesetter
and reporter, a journalist to his
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Hohne was commissioned by the 'joined Der Spiegel. He is current-
Daily, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
paper in 1965 to write the defin- ' ly head of Der Spiegel's seriali-
Thurs., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
itive history of the SS—which, as- zation department.
tonishingly, no one had yet un-
dertaken. The monumental proj-
er involved reading some 70,000
ect of documents from the form-
er secret archives of the SS, docu- ,
ments prom the Nuremburg Wad
Crimes Tribunal, secret diaries of
German ambassadors and SS func-
But
tionaries which had never before
been made public, and interviewing
hundreds of witnesses and victims
of the SS.
He traces the rise to power of
Heinrich Himmler who, in 1929,
clambered to the SS throne and
molded for it and himself a divine
purpose—the destruction of the
Jews (although, ironically, the SS
had been for many years the sole
champion of Zionism in Germany).
In his story of the cancedlike
growth of the SS and Himmler,
Mr. Hohne draws a devastating
picture of the totalitarian mind,
and gives penetrating insight into
what went on inside the death's
head.
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in 1926, and joined the Wehr-
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Der Spiegel Writer Hohne Sheds Light on SS,
"Their uniform was black and
they were the terror of a nation.
Their flash was the runic double-
* and they murdered men in mil-
lions. Hardly an aspect of the
nation's life seemed safe from
their interference . . ."
This is Heinz Hohne's descrip-
tion of the odious SS, which opens
"The Order of the Death's Head "
a history of the most powerful
Third Reich organization, to be is-
sued Feb. 25 by Coward-McCann.
The SS included the secret serv-
ice, the German police, the cream
of the German military, the Ges-
tapo. and operators of the death
camps. Yet it was never the mono-
lithic, single-purpose block that
modern history, Hollywood, and
World War II mythmakers have
depicted until now. One thing that
became immediately apparent to
Hohne in his research was that
our traditional concept of the SS
represents merely "the tip of a
quite unknown iceberg of political
- mystique, cold calculating man-
agement, militaristic robotism."
A distinguished German journal-
ist, and head of the foreign desk
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Reunification is not a nationalis-
tic aim, but we must never again
close our eyes vis-a-vis injustices •
to our countrymen, as was done
towards the Jews under Hitler." :
This distant goal he sees as best
realized in a larger European en- •
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tity.
Starting in 1946 with a borrowed i
typewriter, Springer now owns five at
and in his untiring fight against the German and Jewish peoples
abstruse religious
neo-Nazism, Springer recently was romanticism
of his sup-
elected a Weizmann Institute Hon- are an integral part
democracy in
new
port
for
the
orary Fellow and the citation read:
West Germany. His fight for the
"In recognition of his abiding
of Germany and the finger tips.
friendship for the Jewish people reunification
of its old capital, symbol-1 Asked about the current left
and his gallant championship of freedom
ized in his 20-story building at the wing ferment, he sees a similarity
the State of Israel; of his assis- Berlin Wall, led the late Drew to the days of Hitler. "Young peo-
tance to and support of Jewish Pearson
o dub him "Mr. Berlin." ple again follow a few leaders in
authors in his homeland, even
successor, Jack Ander- an uncontrolled and unconsidered
in times of dire peril; and of his Pearson's
reported that Springer could way." Much of the unrest, how-
steadfast and imaginative con- son,
be called "Mr Israel", and that he ever, he blames on the outmoded
cern with the media of informa- has acted as an unofficial envoy German universities. "There is
tion and communication."
for Israel on confidential missions. nothing wrong with youth as a
Others honored included the US
As a democrat he is inevitably whole", he says. "They are free of
Ambassador in Israel, H. E. Wal- -a staunch opponent of all totalitar- guilt about the past, politically in-
worth Barbour, the American No- ianism, right or left. This has terested and hardworking". The
bel laureate Robert Burns Wood- brought him the enmity not only absence of aesthetic values in cur-
ward of Harvard University and of the right-wing lunatics in Germ- rent industrial society "is not the
Prof. C. B. Anfinsen of the Na- any but ow the New Left and the fault of the social structure. It lies
tional Institute of Health, Bethes- Communists. To these he said: in ourselves. The patriotic ideal is
da, biochemist. "Our present democracy may not hard to inspire in a country one
Prominent Americans who have be perfect but it gives fifty-nine half of which still has concentra-
received Honorary Fellowships in million people more freedom and tion camps. And the way to a Euro-
the past include John F. Kennedy, prosperity than this country has pean ideal has been blocked by,
Harry S. Truman, Nobel laureates ever known. I cannot understand de Gaulle."
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