The Ministry of Culture was requested today by the Social Democratic Party in the Schleswig-Holsterin Parliament to suspend a high school teacher, Lothar Stielau, who is accused of making racist remarks against Jews and Negroes. Stielau is district leader of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Reichspartie in Luebeck.
Reinfried Freuneck, a male nurse in a Munich sanitarium, has been indicted on a complaint by the Weiden Jewish community of violating the state law prohibiting the spreading of national and racial hatred. The man is accused of having stated that “all Jews ought to be exterminated,” and of having said that, if extermination camps were to be re-established, he would volunteer “to give deadly injections to the rest of the Jews.”
East Germany may permit the Frankfurt prosecutor to inspect the personal records of Otto Schweinsberger, suspended public prosecutor in the Hesse Ministry of Justice, who is accused of having quashed court proceedings against an army official charged with murdering 75 Jews in the Caucuses during World War II.
Dr. Schweinsberger is under house arrest while the probe of his activities under the Nazi regime is under way. He was a judge during the Nazi regime. A week ago, when it was found that he had booked air passage for Cairo, police surveillance over his moves was tightened.
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