World headquarters of a large, international neo-Nazi organization were uncovered by Hessian state police near here, immediately after a proposed world congress of neo-Nazis and nco-fascists, scheduled to have been convened during the week-end at Wiesbaden, was called off.
The congress organizers, headed by Friedrich Klein, had announced previously that 800 representatives were expected at the Wiesbaden parley from groups “all over Europe.” As soon as the time for the opening of the congress had passed, and Klein announced that the sessions had been “called off, “Hessian state police raided the headquarters of the “German Social Movement,” which Klein heads. The congress is believed to have been canceled because of insufficient response from those invited.
State Prosecutor Fritz Bauer, announcing the raid, disclosed that membership lists, publications and documents, showing the worldwide ramifications of the group, were found in Klein’s headquarters. Among the lists discovered in the raid was one containing the designations and addresses of 800 fascist and neo-Nazi groups in West Germany and abroad including Africa and Asia, all of which had been invited to the scheduled Wiesbaden congress.
According to Dr. Bauer, an effort to unify the various ultra-rightist groups, through formation of an international “roof organization,” was made May 12, when a preliminary conference was held at Bad Nauheim. The Wiesbaden congress plans, the prosecutor said, were an outgrowth of the Bad Nauheim meeting. Klein is well known as a former leader of the Hitlerite youth movement. He succeeded recently to the leadership of the German Social Movement after the death of the organization’s previous leader, Heinz Priester.
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