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Bonn (JTA) — Scenes
reminiscent of the Hitler era
are occurring in Germany,
with intensive violence by
neo-Nazis and skinheads
leading to injuries and, last
week, even death.
In one of several attacks
against foreigners in Ger-
many, an African asylum-
seeker was killed and two
others seriously injured
Sept. 19, in a fire attack on a
hostel in Saarlouis, a town
in the Saarland near the
French border.
The hostel, which housed
some 30 asylum-seekers,
was badly damaged.
No arrests have made in
that case.
The same hostel was at-
tacked recently, but all in-
habitants had had ample
warning to evacuate before
that assault. Saarlouis has
seen several neo-Nazi at-
tacks recently.
And another furious
assault took place last week
in Hoyerswerda, in former
East Germany, close to
Poland. It, too, was the latest
of a series of attacks in the
same town.
In the latest attack, an-
other heavily guarded hostel
housing foreigners was at-
tacked by neo-Nazis. Hun-
dreds of townspeople cheered
them on.
Five refugees were in-
jured, two of them seriously,
in that assault. There were
16 arrests.
Police in Hoyerswerda
evacuated about 60 for-
eigners from the hostel as a
protective measure.
More than 20 people have
been hurt in Hoyerswerda,
and property damage there
has been- estimated at $1.3
million.
Attacks on foreigners
seeking political asylum
have also been reported in.
Hamburg and Stuttgart,
both in former West Ger-
many. In suburbs near
Dresden, police barely
prevented attacks on two
other hostels for foreigners.
A convoy of human rights
activists came from Berlin to
_ demonstrate solidarity with
the Hoyerswerda refugees,
but found most of them too
frightened to stay.
"There is no place for us in
Germany," one evacuee
said. "This is a dangerous
place for non-Germans."
The peril has been greatest
in former East Germany
where neo-Nazi groups ap-
parently enjoy wide popular
support and sometimes even
get help from local police
chiefs.
Such conditions were
commonplace in Germany in
the early 1930s. Even before
Hitler came to power,
brownshirt thugs beat up
Jews, leftists and others on
the streets, while bystanders
applauded or looked away.
But it seems to observers
that the government's cur-
rent response to the situa-
tion has been to try to
mollify the neo- Nazis in-
stead of cracking down on
them.
Interior Minister
Wolfgang Schauble urged
the opposition Social Dem-
ocratic Party to support
government legislation that
would drastically limit the
entry of foreigners into the
country.
It is the only way to pre-
vent the escalation of hatred
against them, he pleaded.
The government last mon-
th rejected proposals by the
Jewish community to tune
up the legal machinery to
deal swiftly with neo-Nazi
violence.
The proposals were re-
peated by Heinz Galinski,
the Jewish community
chairman, in the aftermath
of the latest violence in
Hoyerswerda.
The heat is apparently on.
The German government
blamed it largely on the
legacy of communism in
former East Germany.
Spokesman Dieter Vogel
told reporters, "It needs to be
taken into account that at-
tacks by radical right-wing
groups on asylum-seekers in
the former German Dem-
ocratic Republic have their
roots in 40 years of SPD
policy.
"However, there cannot be
the slightest acceptance of
violence directed against
foreigners.
"The German government
feels there is an urgent need
to reach an agreement on
asylum policy as soon as
possible," he said.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl
and the state premiers held
a meeting on the issue. They
agreed that the situation
had to be addressed.
The various political par-
ties have agreed to
counteract the right-wing
violence.
However, the German
government also called for
the asylum- seekers to
return to their countries of
origin.