Nearly 34,000 Germans have voted in favor of a public showing for the film “Immortal Beloved” produced by Veit Harlan, director of the Nazi-made anti-Semitic “Jew Suess,” according to the results of a poll conducted here by a film distributing company and a leading cinema in Frankfurt which wishes to exhibit the film. Only 4,000 voted for banning the film. Trade unions and many other democratic groups have protested violently against showing the film because of Harlan’s past activities.
The Frankfurt District Committee of the German Federation of Trade Unions has declared that the methods used in the so-called poll were similar to those employed by the Nazis in plebescites. Altogether over 100,000 ballots were distributed by mail, but it was established by newsmen that many families received no ballots while others received as many as nine ballots. The trade union group attributes the results of the poll to this and similar irregularities.
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