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Johannesburg (JTA) — A former
South African ambassador to the
United States has issued a chal-
lenge to spiritual leaders here to
make religion part of the solution,
not part of the problem, in Africa.
The former diplomat, Harry
Schwarz, made his appeal at a
recent gathering of the African
Christian-Jewish consultation,
facilitated by the South African
Jewish Board of Deputies.
Cyril Harris, the chief rabbi of
South Africa, speaking at anoth-
er session of the conference, said
the "upbuilding of the world" de-
pends upon the values of fami-
ly, community and tradition.
Mr. Schwarz also spoke of the
importance of values.
"It is unacceptable that per-
sons who are dedicated to faiths
committed to sound moral values
merely utter words and do noth-
ing more proactive than that," he
said.
"When, for example, on this
continent of ours there is geno-
cide, Christians and Jews must
stand up as one to see that it is
put an end to."
Religious leaders are not doing
enough to end violence and star-
vation in Africa, Mr. Schwarz
said.
The message of tolerance is not
being spread across the continent,
he said.
Political leaders must be made
to understand that they could re-
main in office only if their be-
havior is "in accordance with
democratic concepts, in accor-
dance with the concepts of peace,
tolerance and reconciliation," Mr.
Schwarz said.
He cited the South African
Council of Churches as an orga-
nization prepared to challenge
the government for failing to con-
duct itself according to those prin-
ciples.
Alleged Denier
Gives Testimony
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Religious Leaders
To Solve Problems
Bonn (JTA) — The testimony of
a German charged in connection
with a film he made on Holocaust
denial has been riddled with con-
tradictions.
The German government re-
cently began the prosecution in
court of Ewald Althans, 29, a neo-
Nazi leader who is accused of
denying the Holocaust, known in
Germany as the "Auschwitz lie,"
and inciting racism in connection
with his film "Profession: Neo-
Nazi."
Denial of the Holocaust is a
criminal offense in Germany.
If found guilty, Mr. Althans
faces up to five years in jail.
The film documents Mr. Al-
thans' activities through inter-
views with him and other neo-
Nazis. When it was released at
the end of 1993, the producers
said they had wanted to show the
young generation of neo-Nazis as
they were.
But critics of the one-hour film
argued that it had turned into a
propaganda film, serving the
causes of the neo-Nazi move-
ment.
In his testimony, Mr. Althans
said he is not a Nazi and that he
had given up his ultranational-
ist views.
He also labeled the charges
against him "lies."
In one of the film's scenes, Mr.
Althans visits the death camp
Auschwitz, where he engages in
a heated debate with a visiting
American Jew, claiming that it
was technically impossible to gas
the Jews and cremate them.
However, Mr. Althans said
comments he made in the movie
that he wanted to turn German
youth into "respectable National
Socialists" were merely a joke.
The movie was banned in Ger-
many because of its content.
Mr. Althans also claimed that
he participated in the movie to
"draw an end line to his neo-Nazi
activities." But in a brief sent in
early 1994 to another Holocaust
denier, British historian David
Irving, Mr. Althans promises that
the movie would show "millions
of Germans that the gas cham-
bers did not exist."
Mr. Althans, who says he al-
ready had turned away from the
extreme right in 1990, claimed
that the letter was a "strategic
white lie."
Last year, Mr. Althans was
sentenced to 18 months impris-
onment for having distributed
racist propaganda, including anti-
Semitic video clips produced dur-
ing World War II.
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Bare It All
In Tel Aviv?
Jerusalem (JTA) — Tel Aviv may
soon have a nudist beach for
bathers who like to bare it all.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ronni Milo
said he would not raise any ob-
jections to the idea.
"We have had a special beach
for religious people," with sepa-
rate sections for men and women.
Nude bathing "does not arouse
the curiosity or special attention
it once did," he added.
A first step toward bathing au
natural has already been taken
with the recent suspension of a
municipal code that bars topless
bathing.