Admitting that anti-Semitism and other Nazi doctrines still persist among elements of the German people, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, in a letter to the American Jewish Conference, pledged that there would be no relaxation of the denazification program.
The letter was in reply to a communication from the Conference protesting the killing of Samuel Dantziger, during a raid by German police on a camp for displaced Jews at Stuttgart.
Replying to a similar protest from the Conference on the Stuttgart incident, Maj. Gen. O.P. Echols, director of the Civil Affairs Division of the War Department, wrote that all aspects of the Dantziger case were being carefully investigated and called attention to the new, more rigid denazification enforcement program recently put into effect.
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