The Bavarian Landtag has given unanimous approval to a Social Democratic motion denouncing “the mounting stream of propaganda emanating from the extreme right as well as from the extreme left, and calling upon the state government “to initiate the necessary counter measures both in Bavaria and in Bonn.”
Speaking for the sponsoring Social Democrats, Landtag deputy H. Essl emphasized that the motion was designed to repudiate the efforts aiming at the belittling of Nazi atrocities Dr. Alois Hundhammer, a former Minister of Education and leader of the Catholic right wing of the Christian Social Union, noted the “danger that our people will forget too quickly the frightful criminal era stretching from 1933 to 1945.
The resolution was welcomed by Bavarian Minister-President Dr. Wilhelm Hoegner and supported by speakers from all sides of the House, but parliamentary observers do not expect it to be followed by any action. Minister President Hoegner merely deplored that a draft law against the glorification of totalitarian systems which he introduced many years ago, is still pigeonholed in a Landtag Committee.
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