Security measures were tightened around Jewish institutions throughout West Germany today following the circulation of a neo-Nazi “hit-list” naming 112 Jewish personalities or Jewish-owned businesses as possible targets for terrorist acts. Most of the targets — 95 — are located in Austria and the rest in West Germany.
The list reportedly has appeared in Vienna, Munich and Hanau. The Interior-Ministry in Bonn first learned of it from the Munich-based Pressedienst Demokratische Initiative. A Ministry spokesman said the authorities had no information of their own but were taking the matter seriously.
According to the Ministry, the list was originally appended to an edition of the Austrian Observer, a neo-Nazi newspaper owned by the National Socialist Party of Austria. It contained five addresses in Frankfurt and other cities and in West Berlin.
Interior Minister Gerhard Baum was said to be concerned that West German neo-Nazis trained by the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, would take the list as an invitation to start a new wave of violence. Baum wamed in the Bundestag several weeks ago that the PLO was escalating its activities in West Germany in cooperation with local terrorist groups.
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