The Bavarian Denazification Ministry has exonerated the editors of the Sued Deutsche Zeitung which published a violently anti-Semitic letter last week resulting in a riot involving Jewish displaced persons, it was reported here during the week-end. The Ministry said the editors had no intention of reviving anti-Semitism and would not be prosecuted.
(In a message to John McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner-designate for Germany, Frank Goldman, president of B’nai B’rith, urged that an investigation of the incident be undertaken and that the paper and the author of the letter be prosecuted. The cablegram to Mr. McCloy pointed out that publication of the letter violated A.M.G. law which makes it a criminal offense to “print any material which propagates former Nazi ideas such as racism and race hatred.”)
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