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Neo-nazi Editor Goes on Trial for Inciting Statement Against Jews

May 21, 1959
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Hans Robert Kremer, former publisher-editor of the neo-Nazi newspaper “Die Anklage,” went on trial today in the district branch of the Federal Supreme Court here, on charges of hate-mongering against Jews and ridiculing the democratic state of West Germany.

The co-plaintiffs against the 40-year-old newspaperman, whose journal was banned by the government in 1957, are the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.

The indictment against Kremer alleges among other things that he had written and published a statement asserting that “the German people know that the claim of 6, 000, 000 murdered Jews is a propaganda device.”

Kremer is already under sentence of five months’ imprisonment, handed down by a court in West Berlin, where he had been convicted of aiding the escape from this country of Franz Rademacher, chief of the “Jewish division” in the Foreign Office under the Nazi regime. Rademacher, who had been charged with responsibility for the murder of 35, 000 Jews, is now reportedly in Syria.

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