Anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic disturbances are increasing in East Germany, according to an authoritative report obtained here from a refugee from the Communist-dominated section of Germany.
The report seems supported by East German radio broadcasts, monitored here, using rabidly anti-Semitic-phraseology and blaming Jews in general for Israel’s action against Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.
The report brought here shows that East Germany’s “People Police” have refused to interfere when vandals desecrated Jewish cemeteries at Halle, Goerlitz and Saalsfeld. The report also shows that the East German regime is adopting an anti-Semitic policy to divert attention from increasing economic difficulties and from increasing restlessness, aimed at the regime, on the part of students and workers.
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