Pro-Nazi forces in West Germany who in their election campaign used anti-Jewish slogans, scored significant gains in the local elections yesterday, first returns received here indicate.
Prominent among the former Nazi leaders elected to office was Wilhelm Schepmann, the last commander of the Nazi Storm Troops, who ran for local election in Gifhorn, a district in Lower Saxony, on the ” Refugee Party ” slate. The ticket apparently gained the support of members of the dissolved neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party. Another local post was won in Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, by former Lt. Gen. Kurt von Manteuffel, onetime commander of the Nazi armored forces.
( The opportunities for the recovery of Jewish communal life in Germany are black, the New York Times reported today from Bonn on the basis of a Joint Distribution Committee survey of German Jewish relief needs and other aspects of Jewish communal life. The Times added that a report on Austria stressed that integration opportunities for Jews in that country were equally poor, possibly worse, and that intolerance and anti-Semitism was stronger in Austria than in Germany.)
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