Dr. Fritz Loewenthal, an attorney now practicing at Bad Oeynhausen who served in the pre-Hitler Reichstag and in 1948/49 was a Social Democratic delegate to the West German constituent assembly, the Bonn “Parliamentary Council,” has submitted to the Coburg District Attorney a criminal complaint against the magazine “Nation Europa,” charging it with “incitement of national and racial hatred” under a clause of the German Penal Code.
“Nation Europa,” which reeks with anti-Semitic innuendo and Nazi propaganda, is the leading mouthpiece of the fascist international in Germany. Nazis and pro-Nazis from a dozen countries belong to its steady contributors.
Basis for Dr. Lowenthal’s complaint is an article in the July issue that harks back to a passage of the recently-released Yalta documents in which both President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin are pictured as considering themselves “Zionists.” Their Zionist creed, writes the author, was the only explicit point of agreement between them, and it explains the hatred toward Germany and Poland breathed by Roosevelt as well as Churchill. There is other scurrilous material in the same vein.
The criminal complaint was filed in Coburg because it is in that city, the first one in Germany to elect a Nazi municipal administration, that “Nation Europe” is published.
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