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Jewish Labor Committee Asks Germany to Discharge Cabinet Members

February 11, 1960
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A resolution calling for the “re-tooling of the world’s educational systems, including the United States and West Germany, to teach the lessons of brutality against mankind by the Nazis, ” was passed at a labor conference here tonight, called by the Jewish Labor Committee to speak out against recent anti-Semitic manifestations in the United States. West Germany and other areas of the world.

Benjamin Tabachinsky, national director, the JLC, addressing 500 delegates of local labor unions, called on the West German Government to discharge three Government ministers whose records were “replete with Nazism.” The three are Hans Globke, secretary of the chancery. Theodor Oberlaender, a former SS captain and now Minister for Refugees and Interior Minister Gerhard Schroeder.

Adolph Held, national chairman of the JLC, who presided, reported on his meeting last week in Amsterdam with Dr. Adolf Arndt, a leader of the West German Social Democrats. Mr. Held said the two had issued a joint statement calling for increased efforts in West German elementary and high school curricula concerning the crimes of the Nazi past.

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