A leader of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic Union called today for “Justice and equality for former members of the SS,” Hitler’s elite guard.
Will Rasner, executive head of the CDU faction in the lower house of the West German Parliament, made the appeal at a meeting of HIAG, the so-called welfare organization of former members of the SS. “Hitler and his henchmen not only brought suffering to millions of human beings, especially upon the Jews, but also brought misery upon the soldiers of the SS,” Rasner said.
Kurt Meyer, a former SS General, told the meeting that the West German Government could not talk about democracy “as long as widows of SS soldiers were excluded from pension rights.” He said that “those who support this dual system or rights only support the policies of Khrushchev.”
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