Search JTA's historical archive dating back to 1923

Court Approves Confiscation of ‘ludendorf Movement’ Racist Literature

June 16, 1961
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date
Advertisement

The Administrative Court of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg today over-ruled a lower court decision, thereby approving confiscation of neo-fascist materials published by the racist “Ludendorff Movement. “

Several truckloads of materials published by the movement were confiscated May 13, after a decision by the Conference of Provincial Interior Ministers which held that the “Ludendorff Movement” and its affiliated organizations were banned in the German Federal Republic.

The lower administrative court upheld a complaint against the confiscation by the “Ludendorff Movement. ” Leaders of the movement announced after today’s upset that they are appealing the confiscation order to the Supreme Court at Karlsruhe.

Recommended from JTA

Advertisement