A demand that the German Socialist Party be suppressed as a “successor to the Nazi Party” was made here today by the Neue Zeitung, official American paper in Germany.
The newspaper attacked the party, which is headed by former Nazi General Otto Remer, and criticized the West German Government and the Allied High Commission for not using various security laws to “prevent further activities directed against the German Constitution.” It pointed out that in program, publications and official statements the party patterns itself on the lines of the Nazi movement.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution today banned a public meeting of the right-wing Deutscher Bloc, headed by Karl Meissner. It also dissolved his 300-man bodyguard on the grounds that its members wore a uniform similar to that of the Nazi Party.
A powerful neo-Nazi movement aimed at restoration of a dictatorship in Germany was under ban in the state of Bavaria today as the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution drew attention to a second powerful neo-Nazi organization now active in Schleswig-Holstein in the British zone of Germany.
Dr. Wilhelm Hoegner, Bavarian Minister of the Interior, announced that activities by the “Nationale Sammelbewegung Deutschlands”–the “National Unification Movement”–headed by Erwin Boerner, would be banned in Bavaria. Boerner recently founded his organization in Stuttgart and Munich and proclaimed a 16-point program calling for a return to a national dictatorship “for the national renaissance of Greater Germany.” He denounced the present German government as traitors who are preventing the national awakening of Germany.
The report issued by the federal agency warned of the activities of Karl Meissner, leader of the “Deutscher Block,” who is now acgive in Schleswig-Holstein organizing semi-military nationalist groups. Meissner’s organization, which has not yet received the status of a political party, puts its members into uniform. The federal office said today that Meissner’s meetings in Flensburg and Kiel were “similar to former Nazi Party meetings with only the Swastika missing.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
