Responding to criticism by American Jewish groups of the selection of ex-Nazi Kurt Georg Kiesinger as Chancellor-candidate, former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today strongly supported Kiesinger.
In a cablegram to national commander Malcolm Tarlov of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., Adenauer lauded the Christian Democratic Party’s controversial candidate. He added that his opinion was “shared by authoritative representatives of Jews living in West Germany.”
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