W. German Anti-Semitism Strong
BONN (JTA1— A public
opinion poll showing that
anti-Semitism is still strong
in West Germany has been
confirmed by security serv-
ices which reported that
anti-Semitic incidents have
increased alarmingly in the
country over the past year.
According to a public
opinion poll conducted by
sociologist Badi Panahi, 50
percent of those surveyed
have negative feelings
about Jews and one-third
have very strong anti-
Semitic prejudices.
Just before this poll was
published in Stern maga-
zine, a government survey
published last week in Der
Spiegal news magazine
showed that 18 percent of
West German voters believe
"Germany had it better
under Hitler."
The poll published in
Stern said that 27 percent
of West Germans believe
some races are predis-
posed to be more im-
moral than others"; 14
percent believe "you
have to keep in mind that
Jews exercise a damag-
ing influence on Western
Christian culture"; 56
percent did not share this
view; 16 percent rejected
it "moderately," and 10.5
percent rejected it
"weakly."
According to Stern, de-
spite the disclosure of Nazi
murders and the telecasting
of such films as the
"Holocaust," anti-Jewish
prejudices have still not
died out.
Meanwhile, security
agencies reported 42 inci-
dents of vandalism against
Jewish cemeteries, monu-
ments and synagogues in
1980 compared to 35 in
1979.
There were 44 cases in
which Jewish activists were
threatened or plots were
uncovered to murder
Jewish leaders. Most of
these developments were
concentrated in recent
months.
In the Cologne suburb
of Deutz, 30 Jewish
gravestones were de-
stroyed and others
daubed with slogans
such as "Adolf (Hitler)
Lives." In the old Jewish
cemetery in Aschafen-
burg, 87 gravestones
were desecrated last No-
vember and partially de-
stroyed.
In August 1980, 152
gravestones were over-
turned and damaged in the
same cemetery and similar
crimes were committed in
more recent months in
Worms and Bad Hersfeld.
Large-scale damage to
Jewish gravestones were
reported from Frankfurt,
the city with the second
largest Jewish community
in West Germany.
Swastikas and Nazi slogans
were daubed on the stones.
A monument at the site of
the old synagogue in
Frankfurt and another
Jewish site in a public park
were defaced with anti-
Semitic slogans. Police re-
ported evidence of close
cooperation between Ger-
man and non-German ex-
tremist groups, the latter
notably Palestinians sup-
porting the Palestinian
Liberation Organization.
Security services were
increasingly concerned
with new evidence of
contacts between neo-
Nazis in West Germany
and El Fatah, the ter-
rorist arm of the PLO.
Many members of the
outla wed
"W.ehrsportgruppe
Hoffman," a neo-Nazi
paramilitary organiza-
tion masquarading as a
sports club, have re-
ceived training at PLO
camps in Lebanon.
The leader of the group,
Karl-Heinz Hoffman, vis-
ited Beirut several times in
recent months and was
hosted there by the PLO.
The government is reported
to be playing down these
facts for fear of harming its
relations with the Arab
countries.
Reacting to this wave of
anti-Semitic incidents and
to the government survey
which showed that 18 per-
cent of West Germans feel
that life was better under
Hitler, Heinz Galinski,
chairman of West Berlin's
Jewish community, urged
new laws to combat neo-
Nazism and rightwing ex-
tremism.
He noted in a radio inter-
view that his past warnings
about a rightwing revival
had been dismissed as
exaggerated.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 27, 1981
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