THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 23, 1919 11
West German Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Holocaust Canard
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
recent decision by the West
German Supreme Court
flatly rejected the canard
circulated by neo-Nazi ele-
ments that the Holocaust
was a fraud and stated st;pc-
ifically that it was, in fact, a
part of the consciousness of
Jews and entitled them to
special regard and respect
from their fellow citizens.
It is considered a land-
mark decision.
The details of the case on
which the judgment was
based were described by Dr.
Stephen J. Roth in the
course of a report on Euro-
pean anti-Semitism at a
meeting of the World
Jewish Congress American
Section here last week. Roth
.is director of the Institute of
Jewish Affairs, the WJC's
London-based - research
organization. He hailed the
decision.
He said the Federal Sup-
reme Court in Bonn passed
its judgment on Oct. 29 in
the case of a non-Jewish
German student born after
1945 whose one Jewish
grandfather was killed at
Auschwitz. The student was
offended by a poster put up
by .a neighbor which stated
that the murder of six mil-
lion Jews by the Nazis was a
"Zionist swindle."
The complainant could
not avoid viewing the
poster on his way to and
from his apartment and
sued for an injunction for
its removal.
A lower court upheld his
right to sue but an appeals
court rejected it on grounds
that his relationship with
his grandfather was not suf-
ficient to give him legal
standing to bring action.
The Supreme Court, how-
ever, declared otherwise,'
Roth reported.
It held that the unique
fate of Jews gave them a
claim for regard and respect
on the part of all German
citizens, that the Holocaust
was part of the conscious-
ness of Jews and a matter of
their personal dignity to be
perceived as the group who
Begin Unsure
on Abortion
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
refused last week, to give
the leaders of the Aguda Is-
rael any promise as to when
he will try again to put
through an amendment to
the abortion law demanded
by the ultra-Orthodox
party. The government
failed to gain a majority on
the amendment, which
eliminates abortions for
economic and social rea-
sons, when it deadlocked at
54-54 on its first reading in
the Knesset.
At a brief meeting with
Aguda MKs Shiomo Lorincz
and Menahem Porush, and
Yehuda Ben Meir, the Na-
tional Religious Party
Whip, Begin refused to be
pinned down to an early try.
Deputy Premier Simha
Ehrlich said it would take a
"cooling off" period of at
least two months before the
government could try again
with any hopes of success.
suffered persecution and to
whom other citizens bear a
moral responsibility.
The court said that re-
spect of these feelings had to
be regarded as a guarantee
for the non-repetition of the
past and was an essential
condition making it possible
for Jews to live in Germany.
Whoever denied the truth of
past events denied to every
Jew the respect to which he
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It said that any attempt
to justify, to gloss over or
to dispute the facts of the
Holocaust showed con-
tempt against every per-
son identified with per-
secution. Finally, the
court affirmed that the
evidence of the facts of
the Holocaust was over-
whelming, Roth re-
ported.
The court upheld the stu-
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the Nazis would have
classified him as a "second
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subjected to persecution.
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