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Frankfurt (JTA) — Outside
pressure is one way to corn-
bat rising nationalism,
xenophobia and anti-
Semitism in Germany, Jews
and non-Jews in several
German cities told a visiting
American interfaith group
last week.
"Politicians and churches
(in Germany) should know
that outside Germany, peo-
ple are talking of what is go-
ing on in this country," Ig-
natz Bubis, the leader of
Germany's Jewish commun-
ity, told a delegation from
the Center for Christian-
Jewish Understanding of
Sacred Heart University in
Fairfield, Corm.
"We need you from the
outside," Benjamin Ort-
meyer, a Frankfurt
schoolteacher long engaged
in anti-racist activities, told
the 12-member delegation at
another meeting.
Pressure from non-
Germans "makes Germans
think about what is going on
inside the country," Mr.
Ortmeyer said.
"If the outside world sees
what is going on and then
goes home and describes it,
then good. We need this
pressure. Outside pressure
encourages people in com-
batting neo-Nazism," he
said.
The interfaith group — led
by Rabbi Jack Bemporad, di-
rector of the center, and An-
thony Cernero, the univer-
sity president —arrived in
Germany for a weeklong series
of meetings with Jewish lead-
ers, academics, Christians in-
volved in interfaith dialogue
and other public figures.
Rabbi Bemporad called for
"more understanding" by
both Christians andJews.
Jews should be aware "of
what is taking place among
Christians" and "Christians
have to know what is going
on outside," he said.
"We hope to establish close
connections between our
center and centers of Jewish-
Christian dialogue" in Ger-
many, he said.
In addition to fact-finding
meetings with Jewish repre-
sentatives, the U.S. group
met with a number of Chris-
tians and Jews involved in
interfaith dialogue and edu-
cation in Germany.
They included members of
the International Council of
Christians and Jews, in-
cluding its president, Martin
Stohr, as well as individuals
involved in educational pro-
grams
rams at various educa-
tional levels.
The American interfaith
group also attended two
ceremonies in Frankfurt
marking the 55th anniver-
sary of Kristallnacht, Nov.
9-10, 1938, when the Nazis
launched the first pogrom of
the Holocaust.
The ceremonies — one held
in the city's ornate,
reconstructed synagogue
and the other, an hour later,
in the municipal ceremony
hall of the historic Paul's
Church — were among
scores of observances held
around Germany marking
the event.
The day Nov. 9, 1938, "was
the end of the beginning,"
American Holocaust
historian Raul Hilberg told
the audience at the
municipal ceremony in
Frankfurt, in a lecture
detailing the start of the
Holocaust.
"Building the gas
chambers was the beginning
of the end," he said.
At both Frankfurt
ceremonies, Mayor Andreas
von Scholer compared the
cm-rent rise of nationalism,
xenophobia and neo- Nazism
with the rise of Nazism
before World War II.
"I will do everything in my
power as mayor to act so that
right-wing extremism does
not spread," he told the au-
dience in the synagogue.
WHO Director
Visits Israel
Geneva (JTA) — The direc-
tor-general of the World
Health Organization left for
Israel to assess the most
urgent health-care needs in
the areas that are scheduled
to fall under autonomous Pa-
lestinian rule.
Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima was
to meet with Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres,
Health Minister Haim
Ramon and Dr. Fathi
Arafat, a cardiologist who
heads the Palestinian Red
Crescent and who is also the
brother of Palestine Libera-
tion Organization Chairman
Yassir Arafat.
In an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
the Japanese physician he
called his mission
' exploratory." ❑