Chancellor Willy Brandt indicated today that there is more interest in Nazism at present in the United States than in West Germany. The West German leader who arrived here yesterday for talks with President Nixon, spoke and answered questions at a National Press Club luncheon at which he was the guest of honor.
Asked to evaluate the new wave of interest in Hitler which seems to be burgeoning in his country, Brandt remarked that if he wanted to watch movies on television portraying Nazis, he would have to come to the United States. “This is true as well as far as certain books and magazines are concerned,” he said, adding that he didn’t think there was any serious tendency in his country that could be identified with Nazism.
Brandt observed that an extreme right-wing group in West Germany polled something like 0.6 percent of the vote in the last elections. He said that while West Germany has its internal problems, they are “certainly not those of the past.”
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