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practiced in Hitler's concen-
tration camps. They believe
the new amendment is weak
and of low legal status, since,
as one critic puts it, "anyone
who disputes the gassing of the
Jews will be judged according
to the same criteria as someone
who calls his neighbor a
rogue."
The Bundestag, however,
would not frame a more severe
or specific law at this time. In
any case, those Germans who
tort the true history
Two months ago, prior to deny or dis
President Reagan's visit to the of the Holocaust are now
site of the infamous Bergen- committing, in the eyes of
Belsen concentration camp, a German law, a punishable of-
neo-Nazi group in West Ger- fense.
An important expose like this
many called the Kampfbund
Deutscher Soldaten offered one is in itself of the necessity of
20,000 marks (about $7,000) to
anyone who could prove that
the Nazis had ever gassed a
For years, right-wing
single Jew.
The Kampfbund stipulated, extremists in
however, that evidence from
Jews, Poles or Germans op- Germany have
posed to Nazi principles was sought, by one means
not acceptable.
For years, right-wing ex- or another, to hide or
tremists in Germany have
sought, by one means or an- deny the Nazis'
other, to hide or deny the monstrous mass
Nazis' monstrous mass murder
of Jews. They have paraded murder of Jews.
with banners that read: "What
an ass am I to believe that Jews
were gassed." And they have
flooded the mails with so much constantly challenging "the lie"
pro-Nazi propaganda that the and the related distortions of
Nurnberger Nachrichten re- truth.
There is much more to the issue
cently commented: "Young
people who have not been than is expressed by George Can-
given a clear picture of the tor. The Adolf Eichmann trial in
darkest chapter in German Israel was and remains proof that
history at school or at home trials are urgent to the remember-
are particularly susceptible to ing of crimes for the sake of pre-
this kind of outrageous venom, venting their recurrence — and
which is often called the 'Au- also of punishing the guilty.
It was during the Eichmann
schwitz lie.' "
Auschwitz was the barbar- trial that it became evident that
ous concentration camp in Po- the Jewish people everywhere
land where the Nazis mur- and especially in Israel were
dered millions, mostly Jews, aware of what had happened to
and the "Auschwitz lie" refers their people during the Hitler era.
to the denial of the mass mur- That trial emerged not only as
ders there. Under provisions of means of judging and punishing
the German code of law deal- one of the guiltiest of crimes. It
ing with libel, slander and de- brought to light the facts about
famation, no German — until therHolocaust, educated a genera-
recently — could be prose- tion that did not know, and re-
cuted for telling the "Au- minded a generation that was
schwitz lie" unless be or she forgetting.
The trials are definite neces.
was accused by a Jew charg-
ing libel, slander or deism- officio, They must be viewed as
compulsory for the present and fu-
MM.
On April 26, two weeks be- ture generations.
Let it be recorded that respon-
fore Reagan arrived In Ger-
many, the Bundestag, Ger- sible Germans adhere to the duty
many's, parliament, passed a of keeping the memory of the
bill amending Chapter 14 of Holocaust tragedies alive as an
the code of criminal law deal- Atonement an as an admonition of
lug with defamation, it WI- non-repetition of the crimes,
gates the public prosecutor Early last mouth, at the Kiwi-

The point he makes that the bi-
goted minds may never concede
the realities of the Hitlerite ter-
rors is well taken. It is just be-
cause of the existence of such
submissions to bigotries, which
may even be spreading, that trials
of the guilty must be considered as
necessities. It is because of just
this reality that Intelligence Re-
port in a recently nationally syn-
dicated Parade magazine carried
this item about "The Auschwitz
Lie":

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