The American Commissioner for Bavaria, Clarence M. Bolds, today criticized the Bavarian Government for its failure to take proper care of the graves of the victims of the Nazis at the former Dachau death camp. In a letter to provincial Premier Hans Ehard, Commissioner Bolds said that the least that could be done for the victims and their relatives is to care for their graves.
An all-German Evangelical Synod in Berlin this week-end adopted a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. The resolution appealed to Christians to “renounce all anti-Semitism and firmly resist it whorever it appears.” It admitted that the church by its passive tolerance “shared the guilt of the German people for the great wrongs inflicted on German Jews in the past.” Finally, it called on Protestant communities to protect Jewish cemeteries from desecration.
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