The Social Democratic Government of Hesse has refused to grant permission for a meeting that had been scheduled in this city from August 13 to 16 by one of the most active branches of the organized international fascist movement, the violently anti-Semitic “European Social Movement.” It is understood that one of the principal leaders of the movement, Sweden’s Dr. Per Engdahl, personally called at the Hesse State Chancery, but without success.
At the sometime, Prof. Theodor Heuss, the West German President, has awarded the Federal Cross of Merit to Erna Soelzer, a 63-year-old German maidhousekeeper for helping her blind Jewish employer in the Nazi era. Even when the Nazis threatened her 15 years ago and forced her to seek other employment, she refused to forsake the Jewish Samulon family, for whom she had worked 31 years. Without regard for the yellow “Jewish star” on blind Mrs. Samulon’s outer clothing, she took the old lady for walks, sneaked in at night to help with the housework and shared her own meager food rations.
For subjecting a Jewish resident to a stream of vile anti-Semitic abuse, a Munich woman, Anna Lederer, was given a $35 fine by the local appeals court, it was reported today.
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