The German League for the Rights of Man has filed a strong protest against the reported refusal of the Federal Defense Ministry to include. “The Third Reich and the Jews,” a 400-page documentary volume on Nazi anti-Semitic measures, in the list of works recommended for inclusion in the libraries of the resurgent German army.
According to a report in “Sueddeutsche Zeitung,” the largest daily in South Germany, this decision was taken because some of the incriminating documents reprinted in the volume bear the signatures of military leaders who are again active in the West German defense establishment.
“If that is really the reason,” said the League for the Rights of Man, “then an elimination of such personalities would better serve the strengthening of German prestige than the suppression of the book.” A similar line is taken by “Telegraf,” the West Berlin Social Democratic daily.
“The Third Reich and the Jews” was prepared by Leon Poliakov and Joseph Wulf, two well-known Jewish historians, and is now in its second printing. A Dutch translation will appear this month and the Paris publishing house of Gallimard will issue a French translation in the spring. Later, an English edition will be forthcoming.
A similar work by Messrs. Polliakov and Wulf, which is to be published in Berlin early next year, also bids fair to stir up a good deal of controversy in Germany. Under the title of “The Third Reich and its Servants,” it presents documents to show the record, good and bad, of German officials in the Foreign Office, the Army and the administration of justice with respect to anti-Jewish persecution.
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