not have grand political in-
tentions or ambitions, but its
emergence as an overwhelm-
ing economic power in the
center of Europe will in-
evitably translate into polit-
ical power, and this could
lead to what one German
specialist in London de-
scribed as a "hegemonic
reality."
"Along with the possibility
of political extremism," he
said with British
understatement, "this could
create problems."
Fears of anti-Semitic out-
bursts are not confined to
Germany. Last week, the
leader of Britain's
350,000-strong Jewish com-
munity, a true believer in
the efficacy of silent diplo-
macy, took the unusual step
of going public with a com-
plaint against Britain's At-
torney-General, Sir Patrick
Mayhew.
Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz,
president of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, the
umbrella body for all Jewish
organizations in Britain,
revealed that he had written
Mayhew to express his
Such a right must
form part of any
conditions laid
down for the
reunification of
Germany.
"disappointment and con-
cern" over the failure of the
British authorities to pros-
ecute those who produce and
disseminate anti- Semitic
literature.
During the past three
years, he noted, the board
had referred some 19 racist
publications to the office of
the attorney-general or the
state prosecutor. But "on no
occasion does there appear to
have been anything more
than a cursory inquiry by
the police into the
background or intent of
those publishing or
distributing the literature."
It was time, declared
Kopelowitz, to prosecute
"those who believe they
may, with impunity, flout
the law" and he called for
"speedy action at all levels
to meet this new and
dangerous situation."
The Anglo-Jewish leader
also expressed concern at the
recent desecration of two
Jewish cemeteries in
Britain, which he described
as "manifestations of a
sickness in our society."
"Those who can vent their
hatred and spleen against
the hallowed dead in so
obscene a fashion are fully
capable of attacking the liv-
ing," he warned, adding that
the police had increased
their patrols of Jewish com-
munal buildings and
cemeteries.
Meanwhile, Metropolitan
Police Commissioner Sir
Peter Imbert told a London
Jewish weekly that the hunt
for perpetrators of attacks on
Jewish cemeteries was being
given top priority.
"Each and every anti-
Semitic incident is being
looked at," said the police
chief in the wake of com-
plaints that his officers were
not sufficiently sensitive to
racist attacks. "There is no
way we would abdicate our
responsibility."
On July 16, the small
group gathered in Paris, as
it does every year, to recall
the day in 1942 when French
police, acting on the orders
of the occupying German
Army, fanned out across the
French capital and scooped
up 13,152 Jewish men, wo-
men and children.
Adolf Eichmann, head of
the Gestapo's Jewish Affairs
Department, had ordered
the deportation of the adults
to Auschwitz, but issued in-
structions that Jewish chil-
dren under the age of 16 be
exempt from deportation
and instead be placed in
French orphanages. The
police chief, however, was
zealous in his task.
As proof that his men were
being "energetically led"
and that they were "capable
of rendering great service,"
he appealed over
Eichmann's head and won
approval from Berlin for the
children to be deported, too.
By the end of the war, the
police chief was able to boast
that he had overseen the
deportation of some 76,000
French Jews — men, women
and children — to the gas
ovens of Auschwitz.
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