Andre Bellefueille, who created a furore in Canada ten days ago by telling a national television audience that he heads a Canadian Nazi Party, announced here today that his “National Socialist Party is dissolved and dead.”
Bellefueille, a government employe working for the Ministry of Transport at Sorel, Quebec, who was suspended from his job after he announced himself as a Nazi leader, said he was “sorry for the misunderstanding” and is now ready to apologize to the Jewish community for his “racist talks.”
In an interview with the newspaper “La Presse,” here, he said “I certainly do not have a hostile attitude toward Jews.” He said he wants to disassociate himself from any ideological identification with George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, whose headquarters are at Arlington, West Virginia.
Bellefueille’s television announcement, in which he had said that 500 native Canadians belong to his Nazi Party, brought immediate protests from the Canadian Jewish Congress and from other Jewish organizations. The Dominion Ministry of Justice, Canadian Secret Service and the Ministry of Transport, which had employed him, immediately ordered inquiries into his activities.
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