A delegation of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith returned today from a three-week study tour of West Germany to report that the 1959-60 “swastika epidemic” was a “turning point in the attitude of German educators” toward the treatment of the Hitler period and citizenship training in the schools.
The preliminary report of the group said that the youth of those involved in the swastika smearings–touched off by the desecration of a synagogue in Cologne on Christmas day 1959–jolted key government and educational leaders into the realization that previous efforts to meet the problem had been totally inadequate. However, the report noted, West German mass media–radio, television, newspapers and periodicals– are still the principal sources of information about the history of the Third Reich, not teachers or parents.
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