The West German Interior Ministry rejected today the conclusion of a report that West Germany was the center of a revival of Nazism.
The charge was made by the International Union of Resistance in a report which will provide the basis for a conference of former resistance fighters scheduled for Antwerp next week. The report, according to the Union, was based on research on neo-Nazi activities in ten countries.
The report said that several neo-Nazi groups were presently active in West Germany. It also asserted there were 123 neo-Nazi groups or publishing houses in West Germany with about 25,000 members and a total circulation of 233,000.
The Ministry admitted the existence of 52 neo-Nazi publications but said it had no knowledge of others and that there had not been any signs of such organizations for the past ten years. Interior Minister Herman Hoercherl said he was convinced that as far as the German people were concerned, the epoch of fascism had been ended for all time.
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